First, let me make it clear that there are probably as many answers to this question as there are belly button rings at a Madonna concert. I'd suggest that the most likely cause has something to do with the emotional baggage a pilot accumulates with age. I'm speaking of baggage caused by the unhealthy focus on a pilot's own mortality, which may result from obsessing over aviation accident data (no doubt there are many other causes, as well). Fortunately, he's not forced to pay an additional $25 per emotional bag checked during his travels toward middle age, or he'd go broke. The price he actually pays involves worrying about the many possible ways an airplane could smite him.

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