At one of the meetings today, the subject of life expectancy for controllers was brought up. Apparently there is a study which concludes that the majority of ATCOs die within 5 years of retirement. Is this true and if so, can anyone point me in the direction of the study? If it is true it is quite a sobering fact.
When the question about the source for life expectancy figures was raised, they sort of fluffed the answer and suggested that they had taken into consideration a reduced life expectancy for ATCOs but they didn't categorically state that this was the case.