So, whaddya do with her, then? Help her off the plane when you got down safe?
I'm thinking that the training these people go through doesn't harden them mentally very much. I seriously doubt that it's anything like the psych conditioning our military puts people through, and they still get people here and there who crack out in the field under fire.
I don't think it's as much a "training" thing as I think it's a "human" thing, and some just aren't wired to meet the spectre of possible, violent death face-to-face.
Well I tell you what I did - my first thought was there is not a damn thing I can do to help this plane fly. If we die no one will know how I acted, but if we live I will hate to have made a fool of myself.
I then took my wife's right hand with my left, and the stewardesses left hand with my right and suggested a prayer, then assured them all would be well. I then leaned forward and tried to calm the old Jewish man in front of me who was telling G-D, in a loud voice, that he was ready to go.
When we got down the stewardess asked me how I remained calm and I told her I just hate to make a scene in public. I was about 30 at the time, my wife and the stewardess were about 26.