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Your age pessimism (or, let’s call a spade a spade: your ageism) certainly annihilates all increases of life expectancy made in the recent past.
My ‘ageism’ is based on my age - I’m gusting 63 and I know the risk factors of increasing age as well as any. I am also well aware that I’m not as sharp in the air as I was even 10 years ago.
Those that deny the effects of age are the dangerous ones.
In this case I can’t see disorientation as a cause since it was pretty much a straight line descent.
I can see a gradual incapacitation such as a TIA or a heart issue being the sort of thing a tired guy I in the other seat might not notice in the dark until it is too late.
It is possible they both fell asleep.