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Old 20th May 2013, 08:20
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Chugalug2
 
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HH, it isn't per se the additional capacity that brings risk, it is whoever assesses that risk. If they be objective professionals, free of all pressure to bend to the will of others, whether manufacturers or operators, then that risk can be reduced to a minimum. If they be one and the same as the operator, who also investigates its own accidents and risk assessments, then it can't.
Unless and until the regulatory and investigation authorities are separate from, and independent of, the operators (as they are in civil aviation) risks will be unnecessarily high, leading to more and more avoidable accidents and fatalities.
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