Can an Average Passenger Actually Be Talked Through Landing a Plane in an Emergency?

(via Mental Floss) Some people are born great, and others have greatness thrust upon them. And there are few thrustings-upon more dramatic than the disaster-movie scenario of an airliner’s flight crew being stricken and a non-pilot having to take the wheel and land the plane. It’s typically depicted as being as simple as getting some instructions from the tower and setting the plane down on the runway—but is that how it would really go down?