Wizz kid I think BOAC has seen a lot more of the real world (as I have) than you give him credit for.
Sadly what I saw in the 60s and 70s I still see today and not just in commercial aviation.
We then blamed the poor guys who had survived the war but there is no excuse for the shysters of today bar greed and ignorance.
There are several occasions that I have bitten off my nose and many where I have kept stumm, sadly too many. Often I have had colleagues willing to sell themselves for a few shillings.....but it often comes back on them as indeed it did when my last company went bang...partly due to lack of public confidence after several fatal accidents.
When you have had close friends killed (murdered?) because of an avoidable accident then you will understand.
Last edited by blind pew; 11th May 2013 at 15:57.