Originally Posted by BearX220
In point of fact, an extremely common theme one finds in NTSB investigations of air crashes with survivors is FAs freezing up, panicking, weeping, etc. at the moment of maximum need. ...
I mean no criticism of anyone here because, as flymeaway says, nobody knows how they'll react when push comes to shove. ...
I can appreciate the "nobody knows how they'll react" factor. Certainly I'd like to think that even as a passenger I would be cool even in the face of a certain crash, too, but I know there's no way I could predict my behavior with confidence. On the other hand, though, my
impression is that pilots
do routinely maintain control of their professionalism in such instances. I admit I don't fully know if my impression is supported by the facts, but if the impression is correct, then surely it's just a matter of training to be able to rely on a cool reaction from the trained person in most cases. Of course that would cost money...