The wreckage on a clear day following the crash of Ethiopian 302, March 2019. Source: NY Times.

“There Are No Old, Bold Pilots”

How Human Ego, Not Boeing, Took 346 Lives

Penn Little
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…

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