Chugalug states
"They are incapable of ensuring the airworthiness of such fleets, or indeed of any fleets because the system was effectively sabotaged in the late 80's by the malevolent actions of Air Officers, mainly by replacing highly skilled, properly trained, and experienced engineers with unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced equippers who were ordered to suborn the Regulations, and did so".
As a current PT Engineer Officer I often find myself wondering about what existed before and the real reason we find ourselves in the apparently crazy position we are today. Please forgive the thread drift but perhaps some one could elaborate on the pre "late 80's" airworthiness system and explain exactly what it was that was done to that system.