"Vette wanted all the passengers to be involved, so he asked them to look out of the windows and invited small groups to come to the cockpit."
Can't imagine this happening in this century, given 9/11. Mind you, regardless of airplane security being more or less secure nowadays, and regardless of the chance of such a near accident/rescue happening plus the chance of having a terrorist on-board; rather because of the strict rules and the fear associated post 9/11.
As a kid/teenager last century, I was frequently let into the cockpit of airliners in flight, and sometimes even invited to sit in the jump seat and fly along for a while - at least once even for the landing. Glorious. Innocent days.
Since I saw this episode of "Air crash"[1] about Aeroflot Flight 593 when a kid invited in the cockpit crashed an Aeroflot Airbus I'm pretty happy that kids aren't any longer invite to the cockpit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kPAWVI5UA
Can't imagine this happening in this century, given 9/11. Mind you, regardless of airplane security being more or less secure nowadays, and regardless of the chance of such a near accident/rescue happening plus the chance of having a terrorist on-board; rather because of the strict rules and the fear associated post 9/11.