Just because pilotless planes are management's wet dream, it doesn't mean the public will ride in them. I've got ten bucks that says it will never pass muster with the fares, at least for the next 30 years.

Would YOU sit in the back of one? Me neither.

Humans recently un-porked a seriously porked up situation (caused by inept ATC) while descending below 2000 feet in IMC conditions in a far away country with very big rocks. Some days you snooze, some days you earn your keep. We're there for a hell of a lot of valid reasons.

Absent the human element, Captain Sullenberger's plane would have would up in some Jersey or Long Island neighborhood. Al Haynes' plane would have augured in as well. Ditto Captain Dave Cronin's and Captain Stoops. And Captain Galloways. As would have...........you get the idea.

I don't lose sleep over it. There are other, far more pressing and immediate threats LEAPing out at our job security and contract. Hats and pilotless planes don't make the top twenty.