https://www.washingtonpost.com/trans...investigation/
[the pilot] was a retired Southwest Airlines captain and former member of its pilots union’s board of directors, the group confirmed. He had recently obtained the highest-level Federal Aviation Administration medical certificate and was rated to fly Boeing 737s, among other planes.
…[his] flight history… included 25 years and more than 25,000 flight-hours with Southwest. He also was certified as an aircraft mechanic