CW247: "corrupt institutions". Indeed.
isn't it ironic that the main international organization responsible for setting standards for civil aviation globally, has such a slight, or even non-existent, profile for holding the component institutions which constitute each Member State's civilian aviation sector to any standards for integrity, reliability, and positive approach to adapting to new, improved technological capacities? Just picture trying to implement and integrate a new state-of-the-art exam monitoring system and i.d. verification procedure on top of layers of "baksheesh".
If the results weren't so often tragic and senseless disasters, it would be comical. Until the projected traffic doubling over like the next 20 years (or some version of that) occurs and then a lot more things will be bumping into stuff when they should not.