"747 Captain: Responsible for several hundred million dollars worth of machinery, several billion dollars worth of buildings/property (if flying over built up cities), 300+ people on board, and tens of thousands of people on the ground"
VLCC (Supertanker) Captain: Responsible for $140 million worth of machinery, $210 million worth of cargo, 25 lives onboard, Billions of dollars worth of clean up costs for the cargo, 1000's of lives if you hit a Passenger ship.
But Pilots are thought much more highly of.
Last edited by merch; 6th Dec 2012 at 09:35.
Reason: Adjusted clean up costs