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> It might be impossible to think critically in such a moment for most people

Indeed. Pilot training should attempt to wash out those people.

There's an audiotape of a test pilot who's airplane went into an uncontrollable spin at high altitude. He was in conversation with the ground, and methodically tried one thing after another, all the way down, voice even and calm to the end. It's astonishing.




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