You believe, it will never happen to you
You think, it will not be your case
You imagine, its a matter of age and/or physical condition
You see, a glamours bells and whistles ending of an illustrious career at your 68 when finally you decide to go into flying retirement and do something else, or just, “hang-up the wings” for good and better…
Corazon Aquino said once: “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life”
We Pilots, collectively, are NOT the exception to the rule, and as a result, we are the NORMAL to the rule, or a fact of life… and why should we care? because the next Dead guy, at some point even while flying or on a day-OFF at that contracts far away location, could be any of us!
Because remember, it is a single CALL a Message or an email, that will change the course of your family relatives and partner LIFE for ever, once they read, or listen to our condolences with your name in it… it is a call, NOT from the company, but from ANY of us Xpat Pilots who you met at that far away location, while we were flying for that Airframe Operator… it is a Call, that only someone close to you, some one who happens to know you, who lived next door or next complex building who in good faith humble honestly will help you deceased by helping in any way your beautiful family, relatives, partner or friend…