Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
In some ways, this ingrained perception that pilots who made mistakes must have been in some way deficient was negated as far back as "Fate Is The Hunter". The only pilot in the book that Gann explicitly refers to as being incompetent and having obtained his position by deception is eventually found out and loses his career, but is not killed as a result of his incompetence.
In that "Capt. Dudley" episode it is also interesting to see what Capt. Gann does when he has to realize that this fellow pilot, one that he fully trusted and even kind of admired, is totally mishandling their aircraft. (Thanks for making me pick up that book again.
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