dear surplus
there have been and will continue to be plenty of pilots who are not on top of things.
and they fly all sorts of planes
I think you are naive to think that being PIC of a lear jet makes you superman.
It might be interesting to compare this with the crash that killed the singer ( can't think of her name) in mexico awhile back...they were claiming to be demonstrating the plane instead of what we might call an illegal charter.
Lear Jets have been crashing for years with professional pilots at the controls...and I am not just singling out lear jets.
in fact, if it were not so tragic, your views would be laughable.
many things can make a professional pilot screw up, including:
not being proficient at a certain maneuver
allowing the OTHER pilot (sic) to take a leg and have him screw up.
being tired.
having an underlying medical problem
or dozens of other things.
Oh, and by the way, a student in a seminole who has been practicing for weeks on just such a situation might be more proficient than someone who has not seen a simulator for a year or so and hasn't practiced an engine out, at night, over the ocean.