.....Minutes after his co-pilot left the cockpit, Captain B K Soni called another flight attendant, Kanika Kala, and asked her to take his seat. and he spent a few minutes teaching the two flight attendants how to operate the aircraft.

He left the cockpit after putting the plane on auto-pilot, leaving the flight attendants to operate the flight.

(you can even see a picture of the air India heroine here)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pilots-sleep-as-flight-attendan...