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I bet civil airlines would love to define their own airworthiness guidelines. I can imagine that one going down well with the budget airlines.
I bet they would also love to investigate their own airworthiness incidents.
I know, lets move towards total self regulation in the civil sector. We could avoid the cost of the CAA or EASA. It must be safe we have not had an airliner blow up in the sky recently, therefore we can relax the safety standards. When one happens, the officials could introduce new standards and show how effective they are at managing crisis. Now where is Mr. Brown's e-mail address.
Why do you think the rail industry has had to change. Self regulation does not work.
Last time I looked we were not at war ( I do accept we are in armed conflict). The problem is this government even want you guys to fight war on the cheap.