In response to fdr's excellent post:
This is today's aviation standard.
Some call it risk management, others simply corruption.
The huge distance of management and regulator to the daily happenings are deliberate.
They take advantage of the fact, that the implicated professionals, at least the few who would still be entitled to wear such a badge, are held ransom with their carrieer by a corrupt system of manufacturer, operator and regulator.
The customer is even more distant and still naively thinks that all the above have one common interest. They actually do have one, not as the customer would think safety, but pure greed.
Because of this distance and the holding hostage of the stick shakers, nothing will happen.
Even the media are of no help here, they are too ignorant of the happenings and anyway, the big selling scoops are bloodstained accidents and not shortcomings.
