They say air travel is safer than driving your own car, in that the changes of meeting your maker after an air crash are far, far lower than the chances of dying in an automobile accident. Some years ago, especially after 9-11, there was a slight tinge of worry about hijackings, but with increasing airport security, it was easy to put that thought out of one's mind.
Now we have pilot suicide to worry about. The Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps was all but certainly a result of the co-pilot deciding to end his own life; and too bad for the other 150 souls on board. MH 370 is also starting to look suspiciously like pilot action rather than pilot error or equipment malfunction.
So now we have one more thing to worry about. You might want to take a good look at the eyes of the cockpit crew as they board the aircraft when you are in the queue at the gate waiting to board.
Just saying.
1 comment:
The way forward might be robotic pilots..so that then we can literally fly on auto-pilot.
Eerie..
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