With at least an average of one Hull Loss each month this year, please explain how the Airline industry remains the safest form of public transportation? Do we right off one train every month? Do we sink one commercial passenger shipping liner every month?
Looking at the five Hull losses that are headline within the industry:
German Wings A320
AirCanada A320
Turkish A320
Turkish A330
Asiana A320
The accident which resulted in fatalities was the one regarding medical issues; remaining accidents which could have easily resulted in fatalities, appear, all to be the result of poor basic handling. Should we therefore not be much more focused on handling than on the much smaller possibility of an accident being caused by a medical problem.
It does seem that the regulators see there role as being "industry friendly" rather than "safety oriented". The regulators also need to compete much like the Airline industry to make their "flag" sufficiently appealing to the operators, this is clearly a conflict of interest. In my view the truly independent regulator is the FAA and in my opinion we, in Europe, need to be taking our lead from the FAA.
Going down the Chinese path of extreme medical evaluation is detrimental to safety as it excludes many otherwise very capable "safe" pilots.
Last edited by kungfu panda; 8th May 2015 at 05:13.