Although pain at the loss of a friend is hard to avoid, "we have been rained right from the start to have the knack of putting it behind us once we step in the cockpit. That's the only way you can be sure that something won't also happen to you," says a pilot named Lee at Chih Hang Air Force Base.
見友伴失事，當然傷悲，「但我們早已練就一上飛機就忘掉一切的功夫，因為只有這樣才不會跟著出事」，志航基地的黎姓飛官說。