Originally Posted by
donotdespisethesnake
In all the cases where people have suggested incapacitation, fumes, hypoxia etc in order to explain otherwise inexplicable flying, I don't think a single one has been found to involve such an event after the formal investigation.
The simpler explanation is that the human brain is fallible, gets overloaded, loses SA and never regains it. Remember that these are rare 1 in 10 million events, most pilots will never experience such a degree of mental "lockup" through their whole career.
I think you are right - I've "locked up" once and seen it happen to others (all in non-flying/driving situations thank God)
Its very weird and normally caused by the brain just getting so much conflicting information WHEN KNOW YOU NEED TO REACT FAST -you just shut down,... might be 10 seconds, might be 15 minutes........... You remeber what was happening - you just can't make any decisions