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many will be disqualified or die each year through to 60. The 1,000 figure is taken for convenience, but in the next 4 years, about 1,000 pilots will have a year of life at age 39. On the basis of the A.L.P.A. figures 12 of those pilots will be disqualified between 39 and 30 and 9 will die. Of the 1,000 who were pilots at 39, 979 are still pilots at 40. The next year 14 are disqualified and 8 die, leaving 957 who are pilots when they are 41. The table follows the 1,000 through to 60.
In the past, many pilots have left their jobs, although not disqualified. In the absence of a pension system like that which A.L.P.A proposes, many pilots will continue to leave without being disqualified. If they wait until they are disqualified they will have much more difficulty in getting a job. This does not mean that a pension plan will give pilots an incentive to be disqualified. A pension averaging around 25 or 35 percent of pay for active flying is not enough to do that. But it will mean that men will stay on the job as long as they can instead of, in self-protection, getting out before they have to. One of the major purposes of the pension plan is to keep men flying as long as they can. The present plans will not do it, although they may be better than no pension plan at all.
The Peterson letter asks for comparative figures on two cases: (1) a pilot 54 years old and with 18 years of service, who retires when the plan goes into effect. The Eastern Plan was effective October 1, 1947. It was assumed that the A.L.P.A. Plan will go into effect on July 1, 1948. Table B shows a comparison between the Eastern pensions and the proposed A.L.P.A pensions for a man who