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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a really dumb question, but short of shooting the plane down, there's nothing they could've done to actually access the people to save them? I'm imagining how scary it would be if the pilot were incapacitated and the others were not, which doesn't seem to be the case here.[/quote] If the passengers are conscious, and can figure out how to get onto the airplane radio to ask for help, there have been a few crazy situations where the air traffic controllers and other pilots have talked the passenger through a descent and landing. There was a case of this last year, a Caravan in Florida, that got a lot of media attention. There are some companies working on emergency autoland features that could be activated by a passenger. In theory you could make that activation accessible over a data link so someone on the ground could initiate it. But that doesn't exist on any airplanes currently used in passenger service. [/quote]
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