SM - you can wind your neck in now. You personally have saved the world and there will now be no more incidents or accidents because every airline will now have their SMS boxes ticked by 8 April, 2012 as required by ICAO Annex 6 Part 1. So you can now have a proper sleep. You'll also find that since the start of this month, every airline will have started spending millions putting yet another system in place, the specification of which will undoubtably change because plonkers keep meddling with the specs.
And I really wouldn't start suggesting that the failure of Qantas's A380 engine and associated damage was due to a lack of SMS systems without understanding how either Qantas or Rolls Royce operates. I wouldn't be the least surprised if they had already had highly credible and efficient safety systems in place.
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Last edited by Piltdown Man; 6th Nov 2010 at 16:18.