Statistics Studied
Your suggestion might be a very logical progression of thought if ONLY the “old statistics” that showed the defects that occurred in engines, structures, or instruments where corrected by doing away with engines, structures, and instruments. However, airplanes of today have not replaced engines, structures, and instruments with “something else!” We still HAVE engines, structures, and instruments – but the ones that we have now have been evaluated and substantially improved. So … the logic that you have recommended really is the following: We need to evaluate how we train today’s pilots and then substantially improve that training, and thereby, improve the competency of those pilots. Only when we can replace engines with something else, replace structures with something else, and replace instruments with something else, will we even approach a time when we might consider replacing pilots with something else.