captain sygate died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot. was only twenty four years old luminary investigations into the crash of flight one twenty say one possible reason may have been a failure to d.i.'s the plane prior to takeoff it's a decision typically made by the captain of the aircraft the problems that we have today in aviation come down to the system that prepares and manufactures planes as well as those who train the pilots and flight personnel with only a handful of certified aviation schools across russia and the industry rapidly growing there simply aren't enough pilots in the seventy's it took only two years to become an aviator now it's a college degree and a specialized program that could take up to eight hears to complete opening just last year once all is attempting to turn back the clock and address the issue the primary goal of the arafat aviation school here in moscow is to fix the shortage of professionals in the russian aviation industry bad weather horrible equipment and even older models of planes have been to blam