Nick, this is largely a UK reaction to the recent FAA statement that they cannot regulate N aircraft beyond USA borders.
Which of course makes you wonder what Untied, Noneworse, Downthepan am and the other US international operators have been getting up to once they get beyond the territorial limits.
You can just see them now at some foreign base.....slipping nitro into the fuel.......over-pressuring the tyres......sniggering as they put clingfilm over the toilet seats.
It must have been hell for a globe-trotting FAA Inspector.