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human
[The Boys] could Homelander have stopped the plane from crashing by using super strength to move whatever stick clearly controls the whole plane?
gpt
Most planes these days are fly-by-wire.

Which means that the "stick" (or yoke) that the pilot moves just feeds into a computer, and it's the computer that actually physically moves the flight control surfaces on the plane. 

So it's like the yoke is no different than the thumbstick on your xbox controller. Without the xbox on and working, your thumbstick isn't going to do shit.

Homelander destroyed the dash in the cockpit (which houses some of the computer systems) with his laser eyes, but many of the computer systems are actually below the floor beneath the pilot's feet, and many more are in a server rack type structure behind the pilot.

Nevertheless, Homelander probably destroyed enough to make the fly-by-wire system inoperable.