Cornish Stormrider and Weekend Flyer,
Thank you both for your support. This is not some arcane discussion about angels on the heads of aerial pins, it is basic bottom line stuff about the foundations of our profession. Given that this is a site dedicated to professional aviators I find it surprising and rather sad that the running, both pro and con, is left to so few. To pick up Weekend Flyer's point, supposing that following "rationalisation" Civil Airworthiness provision was handed over to "substantial" AOC holders together with Accident Investigation. Thus the BA777 accident at LHR would have been investigated by BA. Perhaps the fleet manager would have acted as president. Sound man/woman I'm sure but would anyone here put money on the exemplary AAIB work being emulated under such a limited and partial arrangement? As ever self regulation does not work, either in the civilian or the military worlds.