Yes, that is some flawless logic. Also, if you were a pilot losing control of your airplane, the best thing to do would be to stay calm, quickly analyze the sol

Yes, that is some flawless logic. Also, if you were a pilot losing control of your airplane, the best thing to do would be to stay calm, quickly analyze the solution, go through appropriate checklists and try to fix the situation. That's something pilots can learn. I would actually go as far as claim that's what they're actually taught. However if you search on YouTube, you'll find quite some voice recordings of crashed flights where you can clearly infer from the recording that panic seemed to guide the actions in the cockpit. I think this is far more likely to increase the chances of the pilots failing to regain control of the aircraft, leading to a lot of deaths. So I wouldn't bet on those very same people to always think as rationally as you described here. Rational thinking and panic usually don't work together that well.