Because you're in a high traffic area and hearing nothing on radios or ICS? You can't go more than 10 seconds without having SOMETHING come over them. Unless you're suggesting it suddenly happened right at the moment she needed to hear something.
It would have to happen at some moment. I've been present when light bulbs burn out. On one of the Apollo missions, the center engine of the first stage had a failure and was shut down. There was enough reserve performance in the other four engines that the boost continued successfully. (The von Braun Germans at Marshall Space Flight Center were somewhat derided as being "bridge builders" for their insistence on design margin. This was a vindication of their design philosophy.)
Would she have had enough flight time to attain the balance of being able to ignore the irrelevant chatter, but still be alert to meaningful messages? I have tinnitus and have adapted by tuning it out, so I sometimes don't "hear" things that are going on, even though physically I can actually hear them. But if she was aware, why was she inert? I don't buy into a plot just because it is popular. One could just as well say she was listening to Satan (and I don't buy into that one, either).
There might have been some instinctual-perceptural paralysis. The correct direction (turn left) was contrary to one's natural instinct to turn away from the other traffic. Turning left would feel like turning "into" the oncoming airplane. The gap was 15 seconds. I don't know if that feels like time running fast or slow in such an event.
But not if there is a fault in your headphones, which was my point.
Which you would signal and hand over controls of the aircraft.
And how would you know if there was a fault in your headphones? Is your cat being quiet outside...or has something eaten your cat? Can't tell.
Because you're in a high traffic area and hearing nothing on radios or ICS? You can't go more than 10 seconds without having SOMETHING come over them. Unless you're suggesting it suddenly happened right at the moment she needed to hear something.
It would have to happen at some moment. I've been present when light bulbs burn out. On one of the Apollo missions, the center engine of the first stage had a failure and was shut down. There was enough reserve performance in the other four engines that the boost continued successfully. (The von Braun Germans at Marshall Space Flight Center were somewhat derided as being "bridge builders" for their insistence on design margin. This was a vindication of their design philosophy.)
Would she have had enough flight time to attain the balance of being able to ignore the irrelevant chatter, but still be alert to meaningful messages? I have tinnitus and have adapted by tuning it out, so I sometimes don't "hear" things that are going on, even though physically I can actually hear them. But if she was aware, why was she inert? I don't buy into a plot just because it is popular. One could just as well say she was listening to Satan (and I don't buy into that one, either).
There might have been some instinctual-perceptural paralysis. The correct direction (turn left) was contrary to one's natural instinct to turn away from the other traffic. Turning left would feel like turning "into" the oncoming airplane. The gap was 15 seconds. I don't know if that feels like time running fast or slow in such an event.