Age of Crew - SO aged 70 and using magnifying glass to see
Just a couple of points to be made. The Flight Crew consisted of three. The fourth person on board was a company engineer. The SO was 70 years of age and the comment regarding him "using a magnifying glass to see" is shown as requiring citation in the source used. The aircraft being flown was a B747-200F and the SO was acting in the capacity of Flight Engineer. Whilst I do not know for sure (remember this is PPRuNe) the SO could well have been a former pilot whom was employed as a Systems Operator, a common practice and a title sometimes used by our friends from the USA to describe the person acting as F/E.