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The problem is information overload to pilots. And the pipeline how commercial pilots are trained also changed. 50 years ago a lot of pilots were having military backgrounds and training. So they were having more experience with shit going down the drain situations.



50 years ago they also crashed about 100 times as often as today.

(Air Traffic increased ten-fold since 1970, while fatalities went from 3,500 pa to a few hundred)




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