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You never know how someone will react to something traumatizing like that. She could have had a panic attack and passed out.
Sure, but she's a trained pilot. You're literally drilled on a large number of emergency situations and procedures, with step by step checklists. The lead pilot dying isn't even the scary kind of emergency, in that situation the plane is still working fine. A sudden loss of airspeed, engine out, or a control surface unresponsive, those are all much scarier, and the pilot is expected to stay calm in all of those situations.
"Good luck, we're all counting on you."
You’d hope. Still, I wouldn’t categorize any of those situations as not putting the pilot in physical peril.
Oh yeah, 100% those are straight up dangerous situations.
You're just not allowed to freak out during those dangerous situations. It's like how "there's no crying in baseball", well "there's no freaking out in aviation".
One of the reasons for the crash of Tarom Flight 371 was one of the pilots dying