Sicon wrote: “I am sure he had some sort of major preexisting condition or life-threatening heart condition. I mean, this sort of thing has always happened regularly, right? Right?”
Well, yes it does. Approximately 183 commercial pilots per hundred thousand die each year in the US.
What is the source for your stat?
While flying, or at home or in the hospital? And is that 183/year consistent from pre-vax years to now? And what are the leading causes of their deaths now, versus what they were pre-vax? And finally, where did you get the 183 number?
If you are referring to the CDC's numbers here: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aviation/default.html, it appears that it is in reference to commercial pilots dying in CRASHES, not of heart attacks or strokes in the cockpit or airplane bathroom.
1.8% annual an I'll bet the average age is 55+ - that number is reasonable. The age-adjusted death rate increased by 5.3% from 835.4 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2020 to 879.7 in 2021.
That’s a snapshot of Alaska Commercial Pilots.
“While this is an improvement from the 1990s, it is still almost 50 times the fatality rate for all U.S. workers and more than twice the occupational fatality rate for all U.S. pilots.”
But you already knew that, didn’t you?
Plus, that’s an occupational fatality rate. It could be that Alaska bush pilot is an extremely dangerous job?
Do 17 people die every 8 months at the same military base?
‘Approximately 183 commercial pilots per hundred thousand die each year in the US.’
while they’re flying...? if not, then a meaningless statistic...