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A terrible thing happened this past week. In one specific airline incident, 150 people died.

Per usual, the media has gone berserk. Of course we’d like to know what happened. The families of those killed deserve the truth. If the pilot, as it appears, was either deranged, or purposeful, or just incompetent, we’d like to know that too. But hopefully this knowledge is to avoid any future disasters.

Unfortunately, the “investigations” seem to take a life of their own. I’ve read the pilot was (here’s the list so far:)

++ Depressed
++ Fatalistic
++ Had vision problems
++ Broke up with his girlfriend
++ Was having nightmares
++ Had specific dreams of plane crashes
++ Had sick leave from work, but flew anyway

That’s a pretty long list and I may have missed one or two. By the end of this week, I’m sure the “supposers” will come up with a few more “maybes.”

This incoming “info” is now turning focus on airline pilots – as a group. So once again, the actions of ONE PILOT are being used to address “problems” with pilots en masse. This is unfair and it’s just wrong.

During the year 2014, some 662 MILLION people traveled by plane. And 990 fatalities.

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There are enough really frightening things going on in the world. It annoys me that the actions of this one pilot are being used to scare people and to cast aspersions on the thousands of pilots who take their job, THEIR life, and the lives of their passengers as top priorities.

Any time you have more than one moving part, and any time a human is involved, there’s a chance something may go wrong. We are not so ignorant that we don’t realize what’s involved to get an airplane safely from one destination to the next. But don’t try to corral us into thinking this pilot was the “norm” and that all pilots now deserve censure. I think their overall record proves otherwise.

Sometimes bad things happen – which is why they are called tragedies. Learn what you can from it, make improvements if applicable, and move on.