Talkdown landings have happened. But autoland doesn't do all of the work, there are still manual steps.

@TypeIA OK, I'll clarify. I'm not saying it's likely, just that it's possible. There hasn't been a lot of chances to test this out, except by hijackers, which are rarely highly capable.

@TypeIA There aren't any instances of unsuccessful airliner talkdowns either. This situation just hasn't come up. At least one given the OP's condition - that they can communicate with the ATC.

I don't understand the downvote. People, once again: Downvoting is there to supress low-quality answers, not to show disagreement.

Very good to point that all of the interesting questions are moot if you cannot get radio contact. Anyway, another of those videos: youtu.be/AbTDzPUDxqY

Man Helios 522 was such a tragic case. The story of the one flight attendant waving at the f16 pilots is just sad.

Just FYI, Andreas Prodromou the flight attendant in the cockpit of Helios 522 had a commercial pilot's licence and even he couldn't do anything.

@PeterKämpf wrong answers are low quality. So if you disagree that it's correct, you should downvote.

121.5 ...then you can negotiate changing frequencies if needed.

This may be worth adding to the answer: washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/05/20/…

"Out of 4 people, 2 failed and 3 succeeded." Is this an AI generated answer?

I think it was an honest copy and paste mistake from making a summary of the study: "He chose four men and two women, ages 19 to 67. Four people had zero pilot experience. However, three members of the group (Patrick Miller, Meloney Linder and Daku) had played around with flight simulators, and one (Alexa Vilven) had watched YouTube videos of pilots landing planes. We also had two pilots on board: Aaron Prestbo, a physician and recreational pilot from South Dakota, and Brian Dilse, a former airline pilot who worked for a major carrier in Dubai and now teaches at UND."

@HannahVernon AI answers look different ) I was re-summarizing based on what I could find, first excluded the commercial pilot, but then decided to include them. Trying to find the original study, since the WaPo article doesn't seem to say anything about the 6th participant.

@OrangeDog disagreeing with someone answer doesn't make it a wrong answer, especially when there is no single absolute correct answer.

@Therac I was being facetious :-)

@arana that's why lots of people get to vote

There were a couple mistakes, but this doesn't sound like ChatGPT to me at all.