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9. The provision of security for pilots alone is not sufficient. Unfortunately, the job of piloting is still hazardous, there will always be some who will be cut off in the prime of life or younger. Just as survivorship insurance has been added to the general social security and railroad retirement systems, there ought to be an adequate survivorship system formulated as an integral part of a pilot's retirement system.

The Air Line Pilots Association proposes in the not far distant future to take some concrete steps to secure the adoption of a system having the general characteristics which I have just described. I think it an essential part of the program for the improvement of the air transport industry. I hope that this Board will join with us in the recognition of the essential character of this step.