Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux

I don't know that there's any data available that suggests age really has much to do with commercial aviation crashes for large airlines. Applies to both young and old.

Just throwing this out there:

What are the exact ages of the pilots for major commercial airline accidents worldwide for the past few decades?

Air France 447 comes to mind. (CA: 58 FO #1: 37 FO #2: 32). Probably the best test case to look at via the lenses of age. Experienced, not "too old", good training experiences, etc.

KLM 4805/Pan Am 1736. (CA: 50, FO: 42 FE: 48) Pre-CRM, ego issues with the KLM CA, etc.

Malaysia Air 370: (CA: 53. FO: 27) Lord only knows, he ain't talking.

Korean Air 801: (CA: 42. FO: 40 FE: 57)

Go down this rabbit hole and I defy anyone to correlate pilot age to actual major accidents.

(It makes intuitive sense, I agree, but where's the actual data?)