Originally Posted by
Airmann
Those are the sort of things safety engineers and risk management processes need to address. Once they can successfully show that they have a method of dealing with that and then the other issues then the soulless and cold world of aviation regulation might allow it.
At the end of the day aviation only exists because the parties involved have proved that they can mitigate the risks involved with it to make it acceptable to the traveling public. There's no reason why they couldn't do it again.
Remember, the aviation community was in arms when the flight engineer was replaced by computers.
I would not like to be in their shoes, when they will have to explain to relatives of 350+ victims when (not if) something goes wrong.
and of course - if flight crews are seen only as cost, then pilotless planes are not far away. But this would also mean end of aviation as transport.