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Airline pilots have an upper age limit.

Apparently, it's not safe to have anyone above a certain age fly a plane, even with a copilot, traffic control services, and multiple system redundancies.

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And with pilots, age comes with experiences. Every year of flying, on one hand brings closer to mental and physical decline, on another hand gains valuable flying hours. Sully Sullenberger landed the plane on the Hudson river when he was 58, 7 years from upper age limit. By that time he had flown all kinds of planes in all kinds of condition. With politicians, I view experience as net negative, like how long the fish has been rotting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_ra...

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