so it cannot be argued that it is our regulator that is keeping us safe.
There is no doubt our safety record was earned in blood. Whether the regulator had anything to do with that is all in the past, but the problem is that nowadays CASA are not standing in the way of a backwards slide. I can quite categirically say that when an Australian airline has a major accident, it will not be an accident by pure definition, the causal factors will have been reported by a pilot/engineer etc as having a likelihood of causing an accident and the people with safety oversight will have deemed it a non threat.
Someone said in an earlier post that we should stop referring to the word “safe”, we should also stop referring to the word “accident” as there are very few true accidents in aviation. Almost all causal factors have been reported and then denied due to lack of evidence that they pose a threat.
We personify a normalisation of deviance in Australia.