Coming back to A350 pilot's startle case, today exactly 32 years ago United flight 232 with catastrophic failure of tail mounted engine, the flight controls became disfunctional. It was a fit case for Capt Haynes and crew to get a heart attack but they kept their wits about and worked out a procedure to use thrust to pitch up and down and asymmetric thrust for bank. They created history by controlled crash landing and saving 184 lives out of 296. And here a false windshear warning knocked the crew out of their wit and for some time nobody knew what was happening. Are some more humans than the others? I remember hypnosis shows in which the hypnotist says ,"Sleep" and the person flops into unconsciousness. If this is going to happen in the air then it's a terrible human factor. In that case pilots would need to be checked for hypersensitivity to stress, startle or whatever you may call it.
Last edited by vilas; 19th Jul 2021 at 14:22.