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Old 9th Dec 2008, 00:48
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DelaneyT
 
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...Good job by the pilot for avoiding the school!
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" You smile reading newspaper stories about a pilot in a disabled plane that maneuvered to miss a schoolyard before he hit the ground.

That's crap.

In an emergency situation, a pilot thinks only about one thing -- survival. You battle to survive right down to the ground; you think about nothing else. Your concentration is riveted on what to try next. You don't say anything on the radio, and you aren't even aware a schoolyard exists.

That's exactly how it is. "



[-- 'General Chuck Yeager' USAF]


{quoted from his autobiography "Yeager" ; 1985 Bantam Books, page 119}
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