When I was in primary school, this kid would boast he wasn't afraid of any sort of scary insect or animal. We asked him for proof, and sure enough, on any given occasion, even surprised (we dropped a spider in his pants, an urticary caterpillar in his afternoon nap's matress), he'd squish, stomp, and grind (and sit on, in the case of that spider) with his feet or knuckles or bare hands, or against his hips or bare abdomen nonchalantly...
Anyway the point is, it's strange how long the initial repulsive fear lasts for some people. Unless that camel spider was big and grappling the pilot's face, it'd be strange for the pilot to not realize he's panicking for long enough to crash, rather than take 5 seconds to rip the piece of crap to pieces and recover from there...
Ironicaly, that kid was attacked by a doberman a few years later, without provocation. Before then he'd use the no-fear act as a way to strut his stuff rather than informatively, but on that day he was found with his arm severed and still stomping on the dead dog.
