Dani-Our own agency, our friendly FAA, has "allegedly"
kept quiet in the past about certain aircraft anomolies. Their dream was to hope it that the aircraft was operated by a foreign airline or military squadron-how would the American public, who flew on these by the thousands, be aware of it?
The aircraft which suffered from aileron 'snatch' in some icing conditions was just one. Look up the political expression "plausible denial". When the reports are locked away in a 'Schublade' and nobody else is aware....dead bodies and fragmented aircraft parts in the frozen ground near Roselawn, Indiana.
Any agency or government can have the motivation to cover something up, not just the French.
Is it possible that it happened with the 'Spatzl', the 'Chips', the 'SPQR', even the Amis? Especially when it is legal and many billions (whether aircraft sales, or staggering Arbeitslosigkeitskosten...) are at stake.
No matter where-it should be exposed, just as plundering of airline pension funds and other...eh...corporate cash "upstreaming", "up" to holding companies, must be exposed
.
How about kickbacks from bankruptcy law firms which charge an airline extortionate rates? Look under enough stones in the forest, and some slime will be discovered, especially when a government's executive branch dictates the mentality for government department ministers (Secretaries), and therefore appoints them, whether DOT, FAA....the Tombstone agency. When dead bodies are brought in, the FAA reacts as if they were always unaware of a problem or certification flaw (i.e. icing).
And when the pseudo-government agency which helps support, to a very limited extent, private (even airline!) pensions, and strangely
, has the SAME people on the Board which decides whether or not to loan an airline money.
Imagine the possible conflicts of interest.
. ! Das kann man sich leicht vor-------.