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What a bizarre thing to say. Well, phew, I guess. Lucky the aircraft wasn't damaged by the single female pilot who already had her licence and was just building up hours. Me and all other males in the world would have expected her woman-brain to take over and cause her to panic-land while doing a backflip and simultaneously rolling her ankle or some shit apparently.
I'm seriously struggling to understand why "without damaging the aircraft" was added to the sentence.
Making the point about the damage is more relevant tan you making it a gender thing. But agree it was a strange note for a deadly situation.
Simple, people assume "student pilot" means doom without realizing how far along people fly with instructors.
I think it's much to assume the surprise is about gender instead of the word "student".
I suppose. However this line then doesn't sit right:
Strictly speaking she was in the role of a student, but it's not like she didn't know what she was doing. If she already had a private pilot licence, what else is there to assume?
Because when you're a student it's easy to fuck up and break things. Clipping trees cuz he came in at the wrong angle, landing too hard and fucking up the landing gear, colliding with a telephone wire, you get the idea. Now imagine all of that studentness and also your instructor just committed suicide. Now that's in your brain too. So yeah it's irrelevant fact.
Yes this headline is clearly intended to reinforce the patriarchy rather than to get clicks and sound more suspenseful. And everyone was thinking about the pilot's gender before you brought it up.