A fellow F-14 pilot would later say that "the treatment [Hultgreen] received after her death has always stayed with me as one of the greatest injustices witnessed during my naval career," and that her squadron's executive officer crashed in a flight simulator 97% of the time when faced with similar problems.

Yeah, it's not the fact that she crashed when faced with those problems, It's that she caused herself to have those problems with a poor performance and reaction to that performance. I know it can be very difficult to recover from a flat spin, which is why you aren't supposed to cause one in the first place.

I can't help but laugh derisively at the guy who said the truth about them pushing women ahead despite of qualification, then tried to say that was a lie, only to admit it when people started testifying.

An Accuracy in Media article quotes CDR Tom Sobiek, commanding officer of Fighter Squadron VF-124, as saying of the four female pilots in his squadron, "The women are going to graduate regardless of how they performed" and "the Navy was in a race with the Air Force to get the first female fighter pilot". It quotes Sobiek denying making any such statement. "That is a flat [ass] lie," he said. "And whoever told you that, if they were under oath, should be taken to task."[11] Several of the instructors, however, testified to the contrary. During a subsequent interview with Mike Wallace of CBS "60 Minutes," Sobiek finally admitted that he had made statements that may have conveyed the impression that the women would not be allowed to fail. He added that some female pilots were advanced in combat aviation ahead of many men who were kept waiting or forced to resign.