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by 1972, and indeed to more than 7000 pilots in 1977. Substantially all of these airline pilots will be serving as pilots-in-command of the airlines' most advanced aircraft types.

24. The continued application of the age 60 cutoff to all of these pilots without distinction will leave ugly scars on this nation's air transportation industry. Even if the enormous financial burden generated by the "domino" effect upon training costs is placed to one side, there will still remain the most difficult problem of locating suitable replacement personnel to fill the gaping holes left by the compulsory retirement in vast numbers of our nation's most experienced and skilled airline pilots. Consider the shortage today of skilled pilot personnel and the anticipated worsening of that shortage, particularly in view of current projections of substantial growth and expansion of the air transportation industry. Continuing application of the age 60 cutoff without consideration or review of its desirability from these several points of view is likely to result in serious