AirRabbit
what kind of effect do you think this circumstance will or should have on the FAA, as you describe in the 3rd part of your justification for this being a good event?
Good question and please bear in mind that I am SLF so am probably speaking through my hat!
Having heard a lot about the
laissez-faire attitude of many CAAs [a French noun meaning a policy of non-interference, especially abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market] I wondered if the FAA might be shocked into trying to implement their own rules more strongly. If air crew, ATC and others involved, felt that someone was going to kick their backside - then rules might be followed.
I realise, of course, that the chances of this happening are effectively zero. I know that CAAs around the world have not got the money and people to even begin to hold the tiger by the tail. In this specific case, I hope that all the staff of the carrier will have got a very nasty shock and that the crew will be made an exhibition. The FAA ought to be jumping on them to see why their Cpt failed and what other procedures of theirs might be failing. They won't of course and I know that this ideal is from an old fashioned world!
So, apart from my wishful thinking about the FAA, this carrier is luckier than they deserve and all their pax can travel in the knowledge that this carrier is now SAFER than it was before.