Re: Why we fight (there was an old B&W movie by that name IIRC)

> On the other hand, if you have rational options, panic inducing
situations
> drastically improve your performance.  An Air Canada pilot that was
flying
> a wide bodied jet, only to have it become a very bad glider (due to
> loading insufficient fuel), managed to bring it down on an abandoned
> airstrip.  No other pilot has managed to duplicate this feat in the
> simulator [Because it was the pilot's own fault that the plane had
> insufficient fuel, Air Canada wrote absolutely stunning references
before
> firing him].	I think it was in Sioux City that an aircraft actually
made
> it to the ground, with no hydraulics and only the having the
throttle to
> control the aircraft, two thirds of the passengers and crew survived
the
> breakup of the aircraft, as it cart-wheeled off the runway.  This
has also
> never been duplicated in the simulator.

There was an Eagle lost its wing--the entire left wing, you
understand, not just the tip--and made it back.  McDonnell Douglas
assured them it was impossible.