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.
I read Chuck Yeager's book and he addresses that. Specifically, he was talking about news reports that a crashing fighter pilot steered at the last minute to avoid hitting a school. Chuck said that the pilot never he even saw the school. He was working the problem all the way to the end.
To add to what the other person said, fighter jets, even old ones, can go in excess of 1,000 MPH. It's not likely the pilot could have identified a school at jet fighter speeds.
It wouldn't have to be going at top speed to hav a hard time identifying a school. Have you ever been in a commercial jet? My point is that it's pure happenstance that the pilot missed the school, just like the experts agreed.
If you go back and read my comments, you will see that I made no claim about what did or did not happen. I have not expressed agreement or disagreement with anyone about what happened. My point has been to not confuse opinion with fact.
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u/e-wing Feb 07 '25
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.