I was on one of Uniteds all-women flight crew flights once. That was pretty cool.

Yeah, absolutely - but I do think there is a little bit of innate personality at play, because no matter how much you train and prepare them, some people will simply become overwhelmed and panic no matter what.

Doesn’t work. That makes it worse. (Trust me, I know!)(Although your diagnosis is more-or-less correct. It’s a brain/inner ear interface problem.)

I don’t know if that is the major risk in a situation like this. Bits of metal just happened to hit that window, but could have easily penetrated other spots including the floor. And it’s not exactly clear if the person sucked out the window was the person sitting near it or if they made it very far out the…

I worked at a small charter company as a teenager. The boss there hired pretty much any woman who applied. They make better pilots.

I in fact am replying to the wrong person.

As an estimate of just how awesome: in Top Gun, Jester and Viper were aggressor pilots.

Ditto the controllers as well. I listened to a pair of recordings from LiveATC.net (http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kmdt/KMDT1-ZNY10-Apr-17-2018-1500Z.mp3 & http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kphl/PHL-Twr-Apr-17-2018-1500Z.mp3). And I’m just flat out amazed at the Philadelphia Center controller who was juggling a ton…

For someone like me who gets severe airsickness, the rear of the plane is a nightmare. It moves more than the center. The front moves more too, but not as much as the rear.

Tower also gave her the wrong runway at first, and she was like “so, 27R now? Okay, don’t worry about us guys. Just missing part of the plane and a person was apparently sucked out... Oh, what’s that, yeah 27L. Thanks. Have a pleasant day. I’ll just stop up here by the firetruck.”

Astronauts... Probably the peak form of this personality trait. Like, when Armstrong and whatsisname was up in a Gemini capsule and the attitude control system got all wonky and started spinning them like a centrifuge... If it had gone on much longer than it did they would have lost consciousness due to excessive…

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

Have you read the first chapter of The Right Stuff? They cover that specifically, and Tom Wolfe discusses Chuck Yeager specifically doing that “Aw shucks, we’ve got a problem here” voice. It’s also true for astronauts (who were initially all pilots). The Apollo 13 audio is extremely calm.

When I was paging through the raw ATC audio earlier today before any of the write ups got live, I initially thought she was the FO - and not because she was a woman.

Unless, of course, they have a vagina.

There are other portions of the audio where a male voice is heard - the radios were handled by both (there must have been a hand-off at some point from one to the other).

For people in aviation it has been a bit frustrating to here the references to “the pilot” in this flight. There is a flight crew and they work…

I love how she ends comms with “Have a good day.” and “Thank you for the assistance.” in a calm and cool manner. Like hey I lost a chunk of plane and a passenger so my day is shit. I hope yours is pleasant.

They play the enemy roles for other pilots to train against. They are some hard ass pilots that get lots of flight hours in combat simulation and if you go to war you want them out on the lines first.

After listening to the audio, and how chill she was during the whole landing, I was expecting her to put in a lunch order for her and the co-pilot.

I love window seats....more specifically I love window seats right over the wing so I can watch the wing flaps doing stuff. (Also, I always figured this would be the strongest, most reinforced part of the plane.) If I’m seeing the stories correctly, this would be the seat where the shrapnel hit. Bummer.