Chapter 22 "Milo the Mayor" Summary

The mission to Avignon is when Yossarian loses his nerve. Co-pilot Dobbs, lacking faith in the underaged pilot, Huple, wrests the controls away without warning, sending the plane into a steep dive. For one terrifying moment, Yossarian panics, as he is pinned to the roof of the nose, his headphones unplugged. Huple regains the controls and levels out, but not before the plane drops back into the antiaircraft fire from which they'd just almost escaped. By the time Yossarian jacks his headphones back in, Dobbs is weeping. After some momentary confusion, Yossarian, realizing that the radio-gunner is in distress, makes his way to the rear of the plane, where he finds an injured Snowden sprawled out on the floor.

Earlier, some time before Avignon, Dobbs, who is a nervous wreck from endlessly flying missions, asks...