You are a pilot for a small regional airline. You happen to be the pilot for a p
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You are a pilot for a small regional airline. You happen to be the pilot for a private flight taking 20 members of your extended family to a vacation destination in Mexico. Your spouse and children are already there waiting for you. Mid-flight two things happen: you receive news your spouse died in a car accident. Your children are okay but waiting at a local police station for your arrival. Moments later the planes experiences a mechanical emergency and starts to lose altitude. You know, based on your experience, that there is less than 20% chance that you can land the plane safely, saving yourself and your family. There is a parachute in the cockpit, you can jump out and save yourself.
What will you do?
Explanation / Answer
I will be the last person to take the parachute and jump from the plane. It is my duty to save my passengers first. I try my best to save everyone else and in the worst case if nothing is working within my limits to save everyone I will be with my passengers when the aircraft goes down. It is against my ethics and honor to save myself and let others be in danger.
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