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Old 14th Aug 2009, 13:18
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You're entitled to your opinion; as am I.

Yes, I am a lawyer (with considerable experience of aviation matters) and if I was expressing an opinion in a professional context I would have qualified it by saying that my opinion was based upon the information available to me at date of writing.

For some reason, you left out the sentence immediately following the passage you quoted:
Saturday's crash was the company's first involving fatalities.
My primary concern is that incidents/accidents such as this can lead to increased regulation because those in authority feel that 'something must be done' (or be seen to be done) even when there there no real need to do anything.

There is some risk of accidents arising out of many activities but that is no reason to impose a grey and dull safety regime upon everyone.
It is impossible to live in a riskless society; I would not want to.


FL

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