it's a very cool shot!

Does that actually surprise you? Most of flying is so completely automated these days that the pilots rarely actual "fly" the plane anymore. The set in a flight path and the plane does the rest.

Oh, ok.

Woooooow, what an incredible digital edit! Wow, the retoucher on this is just so amazing. He did a great job making it look as though they're not holding onto the steering mechanism of the plane and that it's just flying by itself. Wow, so impressive ;-)