Post your favorite heroes of transportation incidents.
For me, it's Denny Fitch.
>be Denny Fitch
>veteran DC-10 pilot and instructor
>see JAL123 accident on news
>total loss of hydraulics
>wonders if there's anything they could have done
>obsesses, spending hundreds of hours in simulators running total hydraulic loss scenarios
>boards United 232, a DC-10, as a passenger
>tail engine detonates, severs all three hydraulic lines and backups
>walks to the cockpit and tells them what he knows and starts explaining how best to maintain what control they can
>solely through powering and idling engines, guides plane to airport
>manages to guide the plane, WITH NO CONTROL SURFACES, not just to an airport, but onto the fucking runway
>still a crash landing because no hydraulics, no controls, no landing gear
>first thing Fitch asks the NTSB agent with him when he regains consciousness is if everyone made it okay
>they explain that they had dozens of pilots run his scenario in simulators hundreds of times
>they pancaked before making it halfway to an airport
>every
>single
>time

Had Denny Fitch not boarded United 232, it is almost certain every single person on board would have perished. Instead, 2/3rds of the passengers owe their lives to his autistic obsession with JAL123.

https://youtu.be/o8vdkTz0zqI