"Roger Long" wrote in message
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OK troll, I'll bite.

I'm only aware of one rigorous study ever performed to determine the
relative aptitude and safety of men vs women pilots as a group.

The study was of ferry pilots in World War II and looked at the
performance of men and women delivering aircraft to England. Remember,
this was in the days of poor weather forecasts and primitive navigation.

The study corrected for training and experience to attempt to determine if
there was any essential difference between men and women. The conclusion
was that there was a statistical basis to support the contention that men
should not be allowed to fly aircraft at all!


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Roger Long



"NoPoliticsHere" wrote in message
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I haven't seen any stats on this, but it seems to me that, just
maybe, there could be a much higher rate of crashes when there
are ladies in the cockpit. Maybe this is not the case, and I'm sure
the more PC gents here will be quick to jump on me for even suggesting
it, but during the past, I have noticed more than a few female names
mentioned in news reports about aircraft crashes (with them being one
of the pilots, or the only pilot). Just how many female professional
pilots are there? Aren't they involved in a disproportionately large
number of accidents? Drawing from memory, here are a few:

The accident yesterday that killed 10 with the NASCAR racing team
had a pilot named Liz (haven't met too many guys named Liz).
(Probably pilot error--reasonable guess--because the plane slammed
into Bull Mt. in foggy conditions.)


Unknown at this time what the cause ir causes were....

The commuter crash last week (Indiana?) had a pilot named Kim.

Once again, way too early to assign a cause...


The commuter crash last year (plan overloaded) in Charlotte had
a female captain.

Overloaded? I read as some wieght and balance "guy" screwed up. If , in fact
that was the case........


ValuJet crash in Everglades (in '96 I think) had a female captain.
(of course, this one could have gone down regardless of pilot skill,
but airliners *have* landed while blazing with flames (Ex: Air Canada
in Cincinatti I think).

All sorts of errors(some felonious) in that abortion, however, none by the
flight crew....


The 1991 Colorado Springs 737 crash had a female in the cockpit.


And? Your point is??

A small cargo plane that landed here in town on a freeway (not on the
median, but ONTO rush hour traffic, making a firball out of a van,
killing the driver--female pilot survived) a few years ago had a lone
female pilot.

Did she walk, stumble or crawl away?


A fatal crash involving a Navy fighter (probably F-14) off a
carrier some time back had a female pilot (just how many female
F-14 pilots are there?)


I have no idea but I seriously doubt there's any "fluffers" in the bunch....


See what I mean?


Uh, not really. I'll offer this as advice, if that troll was an attempt to
get a date, maybe you "change the bait."

T3