I agree with MaximumPete. The statistics do not tell the whole sad story.
Truth is, since the 1970's we have done nothing, nothing as a profession to guard and control the entrance qualifications and the quality of candidate entering this profession. Instead, we allowed all sorts of routes into this job. We allowed the ex military fast jet alpha males to wrestle their way into controlling the airline management. What a mistake to make. a scales b scales etc. Just look at how... the Police Doctors Surgeons Lawyers Architects Dentists Building Surveyors have protected their terms and conditions together with entry to the profession! It takes work to do it.
The royal college of airline pilots, now there is a thought. So the ''business psychopaths'' running the airlines are able to divide and rule, witness what has happened over the last few years.
We have only ourselves to blame. Shame on us all from Hong Kong through the Middle East and all the way to Europe.
Was it Carole King that wrote 'its too late baby now its too late ..we really did try and make it..something inside has died and its too late I just cant fake it.