re: Could you land a commercial airplane in an emergency?

Anybody can land a commercial airplane but not everyone can land it in one piece.

All the way to the scene of the crash.

No. Everyone would be dead

Zero chance that I could hit a runway safely. If I was coming down in the middle of Iowa cornfields or some other very wide, flat place, I guess maybe with step-by-step help from ground control there could be a chance of a small group of survivors of the inevitable wreck.

Probably not. I suppose if someone were talking you through the steps on the coms it could be done but I sure as hell wouldn't want to try it.

I think I could land it.... that being said...

I probably would overshoot the ideal part of the runway to begin landing and thusly I'd park it in a field.

The ground coming up, the crosswinds, me not being assertive enough to push it past the glidepath onto the runway would all be the ingredients of me going long.

I think I could get 50% of the people to walk away unharmed.

OR
I land it like a Naval Aviator and hit the ground hard as if it owed me money. Still wind up in the grass somehow.

Sure, I've done it hundreds of times on FS!
Btw, roll all ERV's!

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Could you land a commercial airplane in an emergency?

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As opposed to just flying on autopilot until the engines flame out when the fuel runs dry?

Drag that limp arse captain out of that seat and put me in contact with the nearest airport. We settin down.

In a modern airliner, you can get damn close to the runway by just inputting commands into the computer. Then have the fight attendant run through the landing checklist while someone on the radio talks you down.

Absolutely could do it. Providing the commercial aircraft was a single-engine Cessna 152 and not one of those multi-engine jet powered behemoths! (They do have single engine, fixed-pitch propeller commercial aircraft, right? Right???)