Our inner ears work usually work well, but they can fail us in key moments. Here's what happened to Kobe Bryant's pilot.
, is that the crash stemmed from the pilot executing “poor decision making” as well as experiencing spatial disorientation.
The second sense is somatosensory: “your sense of pressure and your muscle and your bone joint sense,” he says. That “seat of the pants” feeling is what reminds you that gravity is pulling you straight down, for example. The same problem can happen while piloting an aircraft. Of course, if the pilot has good visual cues of the world around them, any confusing sensations can be corrected. But on a moonless night, or in the clouds, vision won’t help you. The pilot must rely on the instruments to reveal the truth.
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