Lots of really good replies to my question. "Staying calm" has been a shared thread. I looked up the pilot in the Quantas A380 near disaster, and it says of of

Lots of really good replies to my question. "Staying calm" has been a shared thread. I looked up the pilot in the Quantas A380 near disaster, and it says of of the Captain de Crespigny's time in the RAAF: "He went on to join the RAAF at age 17 in 1975. During his first training flight the instructor did not stop him from putting the plane into a downward spiral, after which he left de Crespigny to stop the plane from plummeting to the ground alone. The incident left him terrified but heightened his awareness of the dangers of complacency and human error in flight." This team of pilots was able to bring back the largest passenger plane in the world back to a safe landing even after an engine effectively exploded and punctured the wing, fuel tanks, and fly-by-wire electronics. So I am thinking that the next time I am on a plane, I hope the pilot has military training.