Originally Posted by G-CPTN, but oops we lost it in the tidy up...
CCTV
Not a problem within the aircraft, but expensive to transmit to an exterior location.
Very expensive . . .
So is an $X00M aircraft hull and an $X00M liability loss.
And therein perhaps lies one reason we see only selective steady development on stuff that accurately points at cause even if we see super fast development in all other areas of aerospace engineering.
A surprisingly large part of the worldwide insurance market ultimately shoulders the cost of a loss like this - technology that excuses parts of the risk market from contribution might sometimes put an uncomfortable / difficult to manage burden on the remainder.
Sometimes it is fairer for some mystery to remain ...
Not a criticism - just a likely truth.
The insurance market underwrites aviation and aerospace in all its guises - can't do without it, and I think at some levels they do get a say.