Crash one,
I am utterly speechless.
What a load of utter rubbish.
Unfortunatley that's the whole problem.
The over-70s to whom I refer lead a very active life and so it's important to stress I'm not trying to "put them down" in any sense, I think it's great they're constantly taking up new hobbies and keeping active.
The problem remains that they have a high-degree of self-confidence in their abilities, and because of the seniority complex that has been demonstrated in reply to my post (i.e. what can a young whipper snapper possibly teach me) you're never going to be able to convince them to tone down the confidence levels when flying.
The fact remains that fundamental flight safety issues were demonstrated on the two flights to which I refer, and I would not hesitate to putting advanced age down as one of the major contributing factors. And this is not only my opinion, but also of others who were present on the flights concerned who were over the age of 60 !