What amazes me are the idiotic decisions that are made in the name of safety. When a decision is made that can't be backed by data the powers that be bellow "SAFETY" to shut down any further discussion. Those who think there is no such thing as affordable safety have a very poor understanding of risk management.
If "affordable safety" is abandoned it follows that even a cessna 150 should be fitted with a zero zero ejection system and that Malaysian Jet should have had personal ejection seats for every passenger + a life raft equipped with VHF and HF radios and 2 weeks of food. If you think this is nonsense then you actually do believe in affordable safety and the discussion then becomes where to draw the line.
Cheers RA