SASless, I wish I knew the answers to your questions. Me thinks being an expert witness could also be profitable
Maybe the FAA should be the ones asked to be accountable, as their standards had been proven to be lacking when other regulators had recognised the deficiencies?
However we are discussing a relatively new airframe here, not a 30 year old S76A. PHI must have some liability as well, assuming they knew about the lack of birdstrike protection!!??