Prem SN Piramanayagam

Today has really fucked me off. People think all pilots look like me, old, grey, half bald with a beer in hand. They forget that we all have to start somewhere. As a 20 year old copilot getting a job on a Lear (after passing the ATP, and the aircraft type rating), getting shit thrown at you every day by experienced Captains (who only want you to learn) until the point at which you get selected for Captaincy. You’ve worked so hard, you’ve dedicate your entire life to that moment and what it means beyond. To have that cut short is absolutely devastating, it’s a brutal, one chance only world, get it wrong once and there are no second chances. So before you post about a 20 year old female pilot being in such a position ask yourself what you’d done by 20? Ask yourself how your friends and family would feel tonight. Above all, leave it to the investigators to work it out.