"so the real issue is not the manufacturer at all."
As that is what I intended to say,
May I make a further Point? Some discussion here tends to lump Training in with something that I associate with autoflight. ROTE.
It is the very difference between Human piloting and autoflight that creates the possibility of near perfect safety numbers.
Sadly, it is glossed over. Training is not (should not be, only) the drive to commit to memory.
It must be the pursuit of what Humans do so well, and why I think we will never see "unattended" (commercial) Flight?
Innovation, and Intuition. Tempered with EXPERIENCE, NOT TRAINING.
Knowledge plus experience = WISDOM. And wisdom is priceless, deserves a comfortable salary, and dismissal of errant critique, absent the same WISDOM.
Program your computers, and I say, BULLY! Programming the human animal is a fools errand. And ignorant of the resource to hand.
386 or SULLY? For crying out loud, can we not have both?