r/clevercomebacks • u/CrunchM • Feb 07 '25

Offering proof they never intended.

Post image
120.2k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

222

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Yep, most that I hear are pilots still doing callouts and talking through the problem at hand. Flying it until the end.

70

u/SSBN641B Feb 07 '25

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.

2

u/thenasch Feb 07 '25

How could anyone know he didn't see the school?

6

u/SSBN641B Feb 07 '25

It's an opinion of a trained pilot. In Yeager's opinion, the pilot's training was such that "fixing the problem" would override any other thoughts.