If a non experienced person had to emergency land an commercial airplane, how would they be successful?

If you mean someone with NO piloting experience at all, then the answer is that there is not even a remote chance that the person could make a successful landing.

Big, heavy airplanes are very difficult to handle, and there is NO kind of automation that can perform all the functions a pilot must perform to find an airport, fly to the airport, configure the airplane for landing, get the runway environment, and make a landing.

So there is no way. Sorry.

Fortunately there is almost always a qualified pilot on the flight. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) did a study about 5 years ago and determined that about 85 percent of all airline flights are carrying at least one pilot who is qualified in the same or a similar type of airplane.

So it won't matter. It is not likely to come up.

No, there is not. Without automation, landing any aircraft would be extremely difficult for anyone without prior experience.

Actually flying an aircraft by hand requires considerable practice; few people are good at it on the first try. So an inexperienced person taking the controls of an aircraft would almost certainly crash on landing, even with someone helping him over the radio. Under good conditions, he and some of his passengers might survive, but under any other conditions, injuries and fatalities would be hard to avoid.

The problem is that a safe landing requires a controlled landing, and it's easy to lose control of an airplane if you've never touched one before, when you are flying it by hand. There wouldn't be time to learn how to fly the airplane well enough to significantly reduce the risk, even with instruction over the radio. If the person at the controls could keep the aircraft stable enough to make reasonably smooth contact with the ground, many or all people aboard might survive, but that is easier said than done. If he made a mistake, it might be very difficult to recover, and if the airplane isn't well controlled when it reaches the ground, a serious accident with many fatalities is likely.

Fortunately, the automation on airliners is extensive and reliable. With full automation and help from the ground, an inexperienced person of reasonable intelligence with a cool head and the ability to do as he is told could land an airliner. But without automation, the outcome is likely to be disastrous.

First thing, in a modern airliner, there is no way into the cockpit. The reinforced door has to be opened from the inside. (Not refering to private charter aircraft, or smaller airplanes such as the king air in FL).

The chances of both pilots being incapacited, without the rest of the aircraft experiencing the same is highly remote. Since all airlines have 2 pilots, this eliminates this probablity. Second, since almost all transport aircraft are flown on autopilot, the passengers would not have an idea of an problem until it was too late. (aircraft running out of fuel, and then entering a stall due to the autopilot trying to correct for pitch), and by this time, no time to enter the cockpit to save the aircraft.

This scenairo will never play out in the real world (on commerical airlines), but imanging if it did, and the passenger took over, (no flight experience at all), chances are they would over speed, or stall the aircraft, trying to land it. Either they would not pull the power out soon enough, or they pull it out to soon and try to pitch up to strech the landing. Either would result in a accident of the aircraft, but depending on the airport, and if they have overruns, where they runway collaspes to aborb energy would be the factor as if it was a surviable "landing".

It may be possible if you have at least a private or recreational pilots license and it certainly would be a great heroic thing if you did, but unless you are a good listener in an emergency situation with a combination of the above you are more likely to land the aircraft. It's almost like driving a car; there are many intricacies, especially with mother nature. I hope you didn't crash. Let me know if you succeeded, you'll get my thumbs up.

It might work, but it wouldn't be pretty. They find someone for you on the ground, just like they did recently with the pilot who died. of course, this has never happened in commercial aviation, since we have two pilots at all times. But, they did it on Mythbusters, and I think someone could do it. However, if you need something to worry about while you are flying, this is a pretty unlikely scenario.

PS, it was not the tower manager that talked him down. Tower managers usually have no idea how to fly aircraft. It was a simulator instructor that gave him what he needed to land the aircraft. I have friends who work for ATC, and he says very few of them even have private pilot's licenses, much less time in larger, transport category jets.

It happened last week in Florida. The pilot died of a heart attack on takeoff. The autopilot was set to ascend to 10,000 feet. The private pilot landed the plane with help from ATC without mishap. The pilot was single engine rated private pilot. The aircraft was a Beech 200.

The chances of any pilot not rated to land a 7 series Boeing are slim to none.

Yes That is completly possible.I did it lots of time.I just want to show off any girl so I take her with me into a plane in the airport and start the engine and take off.You see taking off is easy.

Then I show her the town from the sky, so that she shows me something I want to see and when it is all over I cooly call the radio and ask for instructions to land the plane.I always land it perfect to the last centimeter.

mythbusters tried this in a simulator where the tower manager gave them directions to land the plane. one of them tried it without any help and crashed. the other had the tower manager talk them through it and landed safely. with the new technology that the airplanes have it is not hard at all to fly. anyways they all have an autopilot setting that will land the plane by itself. (it's even lightening proof)

yes it is possible to receive instructions from ATC and also company frequency. in daylight and perfect weather i'd imagine it to be quite easy for an untrained individual to land an airliner....

but add the darkness of night, low visibility from cloud and windy conditions, then it can get very very very hard.

EDIT: usually ATC will contact an on-duty senior pilot from the airlines company to talk you down. sometimes even a captain from another aircraft in the air, simply because he has the cockpit in front of him. he can mimic and effectively communicate the actions he wants the untrained person to perform.

Maybe, but like somebody posted earlier it wouldn't be pretty.

The airplane will come down eventually. Gravity will always win in the end.