That's fine theoretically, but realistically would you grab the control column or stick from your colleague without first verifying what is going on?
Not that you were addressing me, but
yes...in a heartbeat!
Except in the extremest of circumstances I can't imagine that being the case.
I wonder, what could be more extreme than,
"you are about to die!"?
By way of further explanation, this would be no time to be, er, polite.