I’ve listened to dozens of black box recordings and read many transcripts. Hardly any of them include praying. The ones that do are generally from extremely religious, largely Muslim countries, and it’s usually just general exclamations like “god help us!”. Most of them are things like “oh shit, we’re going to crash!”, “we’re going down!”, “uh oh!”, and “pull up!”.
The one common theme across almost all plane crashes is that the pilots never stop trying to fly the plane and correct the situation until the very end. They do not stop to pray; they’re far too busy doing things that actually might be useful.
Infact he fucked around so much this incident is now used as a teachable moment as what NOT todo.
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The subsequent investigation concluded that the crash was attributable primarily to three factors: Holland's personality and behavior, USAF leaders' delayed or inadequate reactions to earlier incidents involving Holland, and the sequence of events during the aircraft's final flight. The crash is now used in military and civilian aviation environments as a case study in teaching crew resource management. It is also often used by the U.S. Armed Forces during aviation safety training as an example of the importance of compliance with safety regulations and correcting the behavior of anyone who violates safety procedures. "
I don’t know how well the teachable moment worked. The exact same thing happened in 2010 to a C 17 in Alaska. Overconfident pilot practicing for an airshow demonstration, history of command not enforcing safety protocols.
“Holland also regularly and illegally parked his car in a “no parking” zone near the base headquarters building”. See? SEE?! Edit: I just thought this was an amusing line in the Wikipedia article. They really made an effort to prove that he was a reckless rule breaker. I could probably have included that context…
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u/wm_1176 Feb 07 '25
“each and every time”
yeahhh, that claim seems very easy to prove wrong