behind him , his flight , who had been equally inculcated with the belief that to follow your comrades through thick and thin was their highest duty , until it became a reflex action , twitched their planes equally , simultaneously with his action , and dived after their leader into the melee.. only the flights commanding officer , who felt slighted by general meggs going over his head directly to order the pilot to attack and who anyway didnt believe the woman flying the chopper was henty turned his plane upwards , only to crash immediately into a light prop plane flown by a curious amateur pilot .