The plane, and the pilot, were both on auto-pilot at the time, although in different ways.
I don’t understand the problem??? Don’t those pilot caps give them all the authority needed to sit in the pilot’s lap, and by extension, his chair!
Lets hope that if the girls can’t persuade the airline to give him back his job he can get work in some other 3rd world airline (that none of us are likely to fly!)
Yepper - once saw a Valentine's Day card that said, "Baby, you turn me on!
After that, I'm fully automatic!"