First ever female carrier pilot
Failed her first qual attempt, got through on her second
Brass is on record as saying that no woman would be allowed to fail
Killed herself via bad piloting a few months later



Another diversity success story.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen …
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.4 seconds between life and death. I worked heavies in the AF so there was a lot more that could go wrong before catastrophe but damn, that is a full realization of what can happen in an instance.
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Ironically, we used to get a safety brief involving a C-17 maintenance accident that occurred in 2004 (full audio from inside the cockpit) and that was a tragedy of the military's favorite buzzword as well. Amazingly though it was the you female airmen who was mostly in the right
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