The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The theoretical perspective that would explain this issue of airplane-pilot exhaustion would be the following.
As this is an issue of growing media concern, we can use the Conflictive Perspective with the Control of Media and Technology theoretical perspective. Media sometimes tries to disrupt society with the way they cover news and the different approaches they use. Specialists have different points of views that try to give the audience enough reasons why it is important to follow an issue. Most of the time is just to create controversy instead of trying to reach a solution.
Following the studies of Gatekeeping, som media companies define their own agenda or news agenda, deciding what content the audience is going to watch. So media owners can create the agenda, expand news cover about a certain event or public issue, and end it whenever they want.