MH370? I think they had a catastrophic event that rendered the pilots unconscious or dead, and the aircraft continued to fly on until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. A sudden and severe fire or a rapid decompression could both knock the pilots out but allow the aircraft to carry on flying on autopilot.
What do I eat? First Class food, mostly. Meals are put on for the pilots, but usually sufficient food is put on to ensure all the First Class passengers get their choice of food, so extra meals need to be put on in case they all want the same thing. The First meals are usually a bit more appetising than most of the pilot meals, but a lot of the pilot meals are curry - they are the best ones as, putting it politely, most of our catering staff in Hounslow are very experienced Indian catering staff. I'm not such a curry fan as I go to India enough that I eat Indian food there. I tend to go for the fish option. Not enough fish is eaten in our house - DH and kids make retching noises if I get fish in, so I eat it at work instead. I have to try and stay off the puddings, as they are usually very tasty and sitting down for hours on end while eating chocolate fudge pudding or cheesecake does my figure no good at all! I like food, and the temptation to snack on sugary passenger food at 3am is very strong. Going for a beer and spicy chicken wings at 3am when we land in the US is not great for sleep or digestion either!
I've not had anything really scary on take off or landing. I've hit numerous birds during these phases of flight though, and it does become more challenging if the weather is bad. I've flown in blizzards, tail ends of hurricanes, fog, gales, and been hit by lightning several times. Bizarrely, the most recent time I was struck by lightning, the lightning wasn't actually the main issue at the time. Various parts of the automatics had stopped working due to a particular kind of ice crystal forming in the clouds around us and causing malfunctions. Other weather that is a bit strange is St Elmo's Fire (it's a real thing, not just an 80s movie!) Its like a plasma ball across the windscreen. We tend to get that in clouds in the tropics.
When you get pregnant, you can't fly in 1st and 3rd trimester. In reality most pregnant pilots are grounded instantly. We are paid an average of our last few months basic salary and allowances. My employer is not brilliant with maternity pay though, we are paid SMP and that's it. Not ideal, but I had planned pregnancies and saved up beforehand. Plus DH paid the household bills.
There are quite a few ex-mil pilots about, from across all the forces. I fly with a former Red Arrows instructor, an ex-Harrier Jump Jet display pilot, with lots of former fast jet, transporter and helicopter pilots from the military. I've been lucky enough to fly with a lot of very interesting people, including people who have experienced all manner of difficulties in their working life that they wouldn't have expected - colleagues have been human shields, disaster-averting heroes, first/best/most famous this, that and the other. Pilots always stand out on game shows and reality TV (I keep my head down with this sort of thing, although I would love a crack at Bear Grylls' The Island. I'd have them sorted out! 
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I do have hobbies. I ride horses, ski and take part in various endurance events. I take part in one particular kind of niche sport which involves endurance riding and navigation challenges. I compete levels up to the national championships at that, only just being able to do it properly recently though as the kids didn't like it if I was away all week at work and then went off up a mountain in Wales on my own for the weekend. They are less fussed now they are older, my older DC has just started competing with me in team events. I'm not what you would call a social bird so I rarely go out on an evening when I'm at home. When I do, I make it count though! 
The route I took to get here was through a sponsored pilot scheme. My training was paid for by an airline and I paid part of it back by way of a lower salary for the first few years. This way of doing things is not common now, most people pay for their own training and it is expensive. I reckon this puts a lot of women off as they are a bit more cautious with money/future plans/career, but if you get the backing of an airline early on at flying school you will be on a decent salary before long. For anyone interested, this is a fairly typical way into the industry these days - Cadet Pilot Programme.