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Bueno Hombre
racialissmAgeism , sexism , religionism. racialism.. discrimination should not be allowed when hiring pilots unless future proper studies reveal that these classifications of pilots have significantly more accidents and/or bad airline decisions for their airline company.
Nice sentiment but this is ICAO's take on it a few years ago.
https://www.icao.int/NACC/Documents/...ICAO-Evans.pdf
There is not yet the confidence in medical screening to go further.
I am a little sceptical of the way some of these data are presented - ie. do the statistics actually represent the dataset of pilots where ill health is a barrier to entry.