Okay, it's a movie (good too) but a captain flying co-pilot on a B-52 SAC bomber? I don't think so. A Major as CO who panics after a bit of rattling in his plane and tries to pull the bomber into a stall and has to have the co-pilot take over? I don't think so. Good movie but it scares me to think that such loose cannons could really exist that have that responsibility.
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Umm, a cocky Lt. Colonel thought his B52 was a sleek fighter, turned it too tight, at an airshow and smashed into the ground. He killed himself, three colleagues, and destroyed an expensive aircraft.
Well said. I noticed that shut up the OP in thread.
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They did talk about how they had to pass psyc testing and the president didn't
notice how out of all the planes up there theirs' was the only one to have problems
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You could argue it was relevant that the two had a relationship. They were answerable to each other at more than just a duty level, which affected both their operational ability (not shutting the shades, almost stalling), and their ultimate command decision making.
On the other hand, tad has a point. Nobody's perfect, not even US nuclear bomber crew members.