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Complete agreement here. Your last sentence is a different way to express the salient thrust of my message.
"the Aviation Industry must draw its own conclusions about methods, adherence to protocols, and so forth."
So here you demonstrate what is wrong. The verdict is what it is. It has no bearing on the larger issue, that of Safety in the Industry. Left to its own devices, the Industry will recover quickly and inexpensively from an event that happened ten years ago.
Permit a reference to another and current thread, anent the "Industry".
The most recent AD re: Rolls Royce engines (from a read) designates authority for compliance and judgments of airworthiness to the manufacturer itself !!! ........ It cannot be read another way.
Inspections are relaxed, the critical inspection of the problem area is deferred for two hundred cycles.........etc. etc.
A marvelous opportunity to turn the Titanic around has been lost once again. The "Hen" in the "Wolfhouse"?