
Thank you! It would be interesting to know if all these men had their 💉 and when in relation to their sudden deaths or medical incapacitation. For obvious reasons, pilots are some of the most medically supervised people in the world, so if something were wrong, it would probably have been detected before flying.
What percentage of pilots died suddenly like this before the 💉?
What percentage is this now? Is this list total worldwide?
Is there a correlation to sudden death of pilots after having had the C-sickness, but not the 💉?
I notice all these pilots are male. The majority of pilots are male, but there are an increasing number of females in the cockpit. How many of them have suddenly died? What is the change in percentage before and after?
If females turn out to be statistically less likely to die suddenly, then it stands to reason, skills being equal, that females should be pilots and any males, co-pilot. (Sorry, +Bp. W. but you may have to resort to ships and trains!)
And while there’s a problem, if indeed there is a problem, flight engineers should be brought back. They can fly planes as well as pilots and in fact, better in certain situations because they are more apt to know the cause of a malfunction and how to compensate for it.
(My uncle Phil RIP, was a flight engineer in WWII, Korea, then American Airlines. He flew the Lockheed-A Electra 188, DC-4, DC-8, DC-10, 727, 737, and 747 when he retired. He was too late for WWII combat, but flew a few missions over Korea. I’m not sure what kinds of planes in the wars. He never crashed but had a few close calls, had to return to Kansas City shortly after take-off in a DC-10, one of the engines cut out. The scariest was nearly ending up in Jamaica Bay while landing at LaGuardia in NYC. They stopped a couple of yards from the end of the runway, the tires just still on the side of the pavement. The pilot came in too fast and too steep in a rainstorm with the result that the plane skidded front and sideways. There was no damage to the plane and no injuries unless you count a woman who passed out from fright (or relief) as soon as her feet touched the ground. She soon came to and did not require medical assistance.