article_snippet: It is because of the incompatibility between what we want to believe about flying and what we now see.
article_snippet: Air travel presents Air travel as a highly controlled, stringently professional activity, stripped of every unpredictable element.
article_snippet: Besides, most flying is routine -- hours of boredom, the cliché goes, punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
article_snippet: Desperate, cataclysmic acts occur almost daily all over the world; why should cataclysmic acts not occur, once in a long while, in cockpits?