Originally Posted by
LlamaFarmer
I would be more inclined to believe the cases above involved significantly below average... but then, by definition, 50% of the worlds commercial pilots must be "below average".
The average pilot probably wouldn't have ended up in those situations.
There is a word for this kind of thinking.
"it couldn't happen to me. They only died because they were not very good"
Before the accident, there was no evidence to suggest that they were below average.
To decide afterwards that they were is putting your head in the sand.