It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

Erik Larson
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Captain Sully Sullenberger, who landed a US Airways flight on New York’s Hudson River after a bird strike, told his crew to “just keep your eyes on the instruments and fly the airplane” as the aircraft ditched. That kind of guidance is good for pilots and bad for passengers. If you’re a passenger and you know there’s a serious problem with your plane, you better do what you can to keep it in the air. You want to think positively and not get yourself worked up. During that flight, I said to my wife, “I hope he doesn’t say, ‘It’s all right to drill your crew but why not drill the passengers too?’ ”

Source: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania

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