Assuming there are the frequent health checks required of pilots for this airline that we have here, what is the statistical probability of the remaining pilot having a heart attack at the very moment the other pilot leaves the cockpit?
Theoretically possible perhaps, but not likely.
The fact that the names/ages/nationality/religion of the pilots have not been released really bothers me. It suggests that there might be a need to keep information from the public that could damage the “bottom line”.
I read a report, but unconfirmed, that some other pilots from this airline were refusing to fly yesterday. Could be emotional upset -grief, I suppose, if they knew the pilots and flight attendants involved. But it could be something else.
Refusing to fly because they had concluded (as had I before this news came out) that the crash was caused by the airbus flight computers.