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Old 14th Nov 2003, 22:48
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Wow! Pilots over 60 do not contribute to air safety. Such insight.

At what point approaching 60 does the contribution to air safety go out the window? Is it 23:55 on the eve of the 60th birthday? 23:59? Or is the slide into incompetence more prolonged?

Check out the following two links

http://www.airdisaster.com/eyewitness/ua811.shtml

http://www.corazon.com/811ori.pdf

The Captain on that flight was 59 and change - it was his second to last flight. He landed a grossly overwight 747, at night - that had sustained structural damage and had two engines out on the same side - off an overwater black hole approach.
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