This is one of those situations where I think it'd be fun to be a flight simulator "operator". Finding new ways to cause pilots to figure out how to overcome whatever the plane is doing to them. Any pilot that ever comes out of a simulator thinking "like that would ever happen" instead of "that was an interesting situation to keep in mind as possible" should have their wings clipped.

Taking a grain of salt since it's from a movie, but one of the things about Sully setting the plane down in the river was due to his experience of not just the aircraft itself but also situation awareness to realize he was too low to safely divert to an airport. He instinctually "skipped" several steps in the procedures to engage the APU which turned out to be pretty key. The intimated thing being that the procedure was so long that they might not have gotten to the APU in time going step-by-step.