@High Wing Drifter: As you seem to doubt the relevance of scientifical expertise, I'm sure you also think that scientifical evidence for fatigue of flight crew is rubbish.
Now now, no need to be silly is there
FWIW I also laughed my little darned socks off at the HPL implication that older people look over their bifocals and ruminate and cogitate on the nature of the emergency before comming to an accurate assessment. Whereas the youngster leaps to an inapporpriate conclusion ending in the deaths of all on board.