I'm A Pilot, And No, I'm Not Afraid To Go To Work Today

This week's Germanwings Airbus crash -- and recent reports that the co-pilot may have crashed the plane deliberately -- have left travelers questioning the security of air travel. I worry now is that every time a plane goes down and the reason is not immediately obvious, people will begin proposing suicide as a possible cause.. Pilots are human beings, and no profession is bulletproof against every human weakness. What’s different is that, in years past, we didn’t have a 24/7 news cycle with media outlets spread across multiple platforms, all vying simultaneously for your attention. The past decade has been the safest in civil aviation history, and the cluster of serious accidents over the last year, tragic as they’ve been, is unlikely to change the overall trend.