belong to Banks or Operators are dependant of Leasing . Is it a statistic factor of danger?
I don´t know any pilot flying careless because his airplane belongs to a bank.
I do know operations with leased airplanes and I sometimes freelance on airplanes that are leased.
Its a sign of creative accounting and limiting liability and maybe sometimes a sign of corporations and individuals owning airplanes they might not be able to afford them if they´d have to pay for it in one chunk.
A sign of our times.