Talking through a landing?
I was just reading the thread on R&N about armed pilots and hikacking, and it got me thinking.
In all the movies, when an aircraft is left with no flight crew on board, a total amateur manages to land it, with the assistance of a grizzled old pilot who's been dragged out of a bar somewhere to stand in the tower and talk them through it.
Has this ever happened, with light aircraft or anything bigger? Would it be possible for a non-pilot, or perhaps a PPL, or flight simmer (a la "Snakes on Plane"), or even a professinal who isn't trained on the type to land a big jet with only verbal assistance from the tower?
Steve.