Originally Posted by Flaps30

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In the worst case, if a surgeon made a mistake, one patient died. For flight crew, we are talking about the life of 300+ passengers and crews. The work involved during descend and approach is tremendous. I don't want the pilot of my flight become fatigue after 20+ hours of duty.

A line must be drawn somewhere. If the duty hour can be extended, should it be 1, 2, or 3 hours?

Sometime we just have to live with all these regulations, guidelines, legal requirements, no matter how ridiculous they look.