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Perhaps the most thought-provoking feature of this film is the obvious inertia of the collective mind. Captain Whitaker drank before and on the flight, and he was able to do what numerous other pilots who have been specially tested, failed to do - and he saved numerous lives. In rational universe, this fact should have triggered at least a serious research of the possible correlation between these two facts, and possible re-thinking of the effects of alcohol on human abilities. In reality, not only this thought does not even cross anyone's mind, including Captain Whitaker himself, but he is sentenced to prison. The belief that alcohol _must_ have had negative effect on pilots abilities apparently is far more important than _the fact_ that exactly the opposite has _actually_ happened.