If you have a very sick captain the other crew should declare an emergency. "Grave and immediate danger to the aircraft or its crew or passengers"
With a deceased captain there's no emergency.
When you have two other qualified pilots the most senior one assumes command and then they calmly and in cooperation with the authorities and the company decide what action to take and where to land.
I thought that it was only the stupid journalists that believed that an aircraft without a captain would fall out of the sky. Obviously some of the pilots in this forum think the same? Or maybe you are not pilots?
RIP Captain
Last edited by Patty747400; 19th Oct 2010 at 13:40.