Originally Posted by
Mike78
I do hope that the above wasn't the case, but whatever was the cause, it is a tragic and saddening accident.
I hope you got a good solution to the complaint. Relative youth is no guarantee of health, it‘s true. It also appears to be true that although the risk of certain conditions may increase with age, a lot of people are fitter as they age than they were several decades ago (although increasing poverty may reverse that trend overall and in defineable groups). Personally, I like to think of 70 as the new 40 as it‘s good for morale.
That said, I doubt very much if incapacitation will be found to be causal or implicated in this accident. Not only because it is highly unlikely in itself, but also because the pilot was sat next to another person, who although given as a passenger, would almost certainly have been able intervene given their experience and stop matters getting out of hand.