Please don't panic, the pilot died - oh and you can unfasten your seatbelts, we've just landed

SHOOT: This really happened on a Continental flight yesterday. In reality of course, the passengers weren't informed until after the flight:

She was impressed with the way the flight crew handled themselves and did not think passengers needed to be informed of the death during the flight.

clipped from news.yahoo.com NEWARK, N.J. – The only inkling passengers had that something was wrong on the Continental Airlines flight over the Atlantic Ocean was when an announcement came over the loudspeaker asking if there was a doctor on board. Otherwise, flight attendants continued to serve snacks. Passengers read magazines and watched movies. And the flight kept on its schedule. But in the cockpit, the 60-year-old captain had died of a suspected heart attack and two co-pilots took over the controls. The 247 passengers aboard did not learn what had happened until the flight from Brussels landed safely Thursday and was met by fire trucks, emergency vehicles and dozens of reporters. "I was shocked," said Dora Dekeyser of Houston. "Nobody knew anything."