@Mr.Organ
physically isolated from the passengers and any difficulties that may be occurring within the passenger section of the plane. They are isolated from most of the physical structures of the aircraft
This a quote from
Donald A. Norman UCSD, not from me.
is a happenstance that's been with us since the 1930s, and not part of the equation at all.
These are your words, and I ask why you say that this is not part of the equation when it so clearly is.
Also I would ask you to consider that this is 2012, not 1930 something. Don't you think it's time that that people rid themselves of old and tired ideas and consider new and safer ones?
What exactly is wrong with having cameras on the engines and other critical parts?
They have been doing this in the marine industry for decades!