I fail to see what the Air France 447 has to do with this comment you made.
Now THAT would be some interesting stuff to deviate around on a dark and dirty moonless night on min fuel while the suits held hands and whimpered in the back...
My personal opinion is pilots as a group are not all that much different from any other group of people working in any other occupation.
And I have flown with a few airline types who were marginal with regard to their aircraft handling skills, which leads me to believe that being a pilot is not all that difficult an occupation relatively speaking.