You know why the cockpit is always in the nose of the aircraft? Because the cockpit-forward design insures that the flight deck crew are the first to arrive at the scene of the accident.
There’s nothing “heroic” about saving a wounded aircraft, it’s purely a matter of self-preservation. Their primary motivation is saving their own bacon. If you also save the pax and get a movie deal in the bargain, that’s just gravy.
Sorry, but I am not going to minimize someones achievements just because they also saw benefit from them.... Seems a little cynical world view to say the least.
We used to say, somewhat sarcastically,”That’s why we get the big bucks”.
Wait, I thought it was inches below the bellybutton ?
I think the passengers of that flight would disagree with you.
Synonym valiant
“There’s nothing “heroic” about saving a wounded aircraft, it’s purely a matter of self-preservation.”
That same self-preservation that made her invest hour after hour, year after year, practicing how to get a broken bird home along with the people she accepted responsible for.
A good return on her investment I would say.
Yeah, I am sure she was sitting in the cockpit thinking, “Wow, what a book deal this would make !”
Well if civilian airliners had ejection seats for the cockpit crew like military aircraft do..
The paying passengers might get a bit cranky
There’s nothing “heroic” about saving a wounded aircraft, it’s purely a matter of self-preservation. Their primary motivation is saving their own bacon. If you also save the pax and get a movie deal in the bargain, that’s just gravy.
A male pilot wouldn’t have landed a movie/book deal for this incident.
Never Trump Sell-out Sully already cornered that market.