Originally Posted by
gojo
Yet many smart people in other professions, doctors, lawyers and such know better too. But somehow a percentage will also make this mistake. Just because we can read and fly a jet doesn't make us perfect or immune to life's problems.
We do a much better job of getting the word out (I know plenty of MDs and JDs and they're mostly oblivious).
Our biggest failing if you want to call it that is in helping each other out. In most of these cases another pilot missed an opportunity to intervene, either the day of, or long before.