In the modern world the political nations are governed by separation of powers. There are the executives, the lawmakers and the judges. (i will not contest the new power, the media, having a big impact as well).
In aviation there was a comparable set up with the company executives, the aviation authorities and the genuine postholders of safety within the company or some NTSB. (the unions also playing a part in it).
Today the company executives pay all of them and practically own them at least politically through economical blackmail. Rising big powers in Asia are set up in dictatorship countries anyway. The unions are almost eliminated and the media is so incompetent, that their impact is controllable. The big manufacturers play along, as it serves them well. The outcome is blatantly readable on more and more accident reports, but only for insiders, as it is well masked by the mighty interest groups.
It will not change, as it works nicely on the bonus side. Victims don't matter as long as the numbers stay below an unfortunately very high public trigger.
So brace for more automatic induced and low training enhanced accidents. The warnings on threads like this will only serve as cover-up in a future rude awakening.
For example:
" ... there were some voices among the professionals, but they should have stressed their point much stronger at that time, after all they were in charge of the final safety. So in effect the professionals bare the main responsibility for the present catastrophe, as the engineers and CEOs couldn't have fully known the impact of their actions ."
Last edited by Gretchenfrage; 16th Jan 2011 at 04:56.