The corporate ignorance (and increasingly, government ignorance as governments get out of the safety business and hand it over to private corporations), of how the industry has achieved the excellent safety record it enjoys today, is increasing, partly due to lost history/experience, but mainly due to the new politics of safety. Such collective ignorance is tacitly granting permission to airline managements to set aside flight data programs which inconveniently show that not everything is well. This isn't just an opinion or reading about others' experience in trying to breath life into data programs.
Excellent post PJ2, thanks.
This trend is indeed very scarry. Management forcing crews to take short cuts to improve profits. Flight Safety Managers have a position but no power whatsoever. Some Managers these days are not even pilots anymore.
They'll only learn when it's to late.