
“There Are No Old, Bold Pilots”
How Human Ego, Not Boeing, Took 346 Lives
Nov 7 · 5 min read
Before I took my first flying lesson at age fourteen, my father quoted E. Hamilton Lee, saying, “Son, remember, there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots!”
Three years later, in 2001, I was a seventeen-year-old licensed pilot completing a rather lengthy solo journey in a…

