Originally Posted by
anxiao
In the days when pilots were hired from the military ……one of the jobs of the Chief Pilot was to ring around squadrons …….. to get a rough idea of who had applied to his new airline. both mental and flying skills of people who applied.
The pilots who crashed Egyptair, Silkair and tried to crash FedEx were all ex military. I’d suggest that ‘recruiting method’ wasn’t foolproof.