A good decade or so ago I was sitting on my couch deep into a binge rewatch of the action-adventure show 24. Midway through a season six storyline, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hijacks a commercial aeroplane and then, in the next episode, has to land the damn thing.
When he did it, I jumped to my feet and cheered.
It was the greatest thing I had seen i…