No pilot?
I admit this is a bit of a weird question, but it's just something I thought I should find out. Honestly, I don't really know much about aviation but I am interested in it nonetheless.
Okay... so on a commercial airline plane which is cruising mid-flight to its destination, what would happen if the pilot (and everybody else on board) were to suddenly disappear or just stop controlling the plane? If it was on auto-pilot would it just continue to fly? Where to? Can auto-pilot even land a plane? How about if it wasn't on auto-pilot? Would safety systems kick in and turn it on? Is there any circumstance in which the plane would crash because of this?
Thanks in advance for reading/answering. xD