low pay = unskilled labour
To me this whole thing has a much simpler explanation. The less you are willing to pay for labour, the less experience and skill you will get. No one is exempt from making mistakes, we are all human. But with acquired experience and skills, usually, the potential for mistakes reduces significantly. As pilots, acquiring these skills and experience take a long time and a lot of effort and, if you have any pride in yourself, you wouldn't sell yourself cheaply. Apparently Bond offer 85K gross salary as Captain to fly the state of the art machine nowadays and in one of the most complicated operations: North Sea CAT to offshore platforms. The results have not taken long to show.... Luckily no one was hurt this time.
In most cases the amount you are willing to pay for a product or service is directly proportional to the quality you'll receive in return.