Originally Posted by
TightSlot
I'm curious - Are some of you actually suggesting that life-jackets have no useful function and should be removed?
I'm the OP, I asked the question because the way bean counters are running our lives I wonder how long it will be before some does the cost benefit analysis and makes a financial case for removing them.
Like it or not there is a price put on human life in various situations we encounter in daily life. So I expect that someone somewhere will have worked out much can be saved by taking the weight of equipment off aircraft, the cost to supply and maintain etc ... and balancing this against the cost in loss of life.
It would no doubt be a move that attracted some adverse publicity, but I'm sure that in time someone will decide that there is money to be saved and will give it a try ...