1) People are encouraged by governments to take more responsibility for themselves
Thats the best joke Iīve read in ages, thanks for a good laugh...
@korrol: as Piltdown man pointed out, there is little parts that stay on an airplane for a long time. One of it is the fuselage. When these parts are damaged, for obvious reasons it cant just be replaced, but it will be repaired in a manner that guarantees it works safely and an AND analysis is carried out to make sure other parts, that canīt be seen, aren`t damaged as well. Very often, so called large areas / lots of parts are tested by ultrasonic or other methods to make sure the is no further damage. The aircraft themselves are engineered and designed to withstand partial failures of vital parts (remember the 737 of ALOHA - the one that lost quite a lot of its fuselage?).
All in all, a hard landing is not to uncommon, airlines usually do have quick access recorders or datalink connection to maintenance, that report anything out of the envelope (and a landing that cause dents in an airframe is certainly such an event).
Very very little chance such a thing would go unnoticed and therefore the airframe would fly in an un-airworthy state.