WW. Certainly! I was making a generalisation!
However, if the company skimps on saftey training for 20 years. Hires less skilled people and so on - if they have one such incident as you mention in 20 years?
I have NO IDEA what the figures are but, in commerce, I have seen people cut back on training, saftey and provision of new equipment of
anything they can cut back on.
When it all goes wrong, some bloke rolls up his sleeves and fixes it by throwing money at the problem. He then gets praised for fixing a problem that he should not have allowed to happen!
The problem is that people do not get praised for nothing going wrong - they get praised for fixing 'situations'. It is one of the reasons that I left structured employment.
I realise that the airline biz has closer scrutiny and standards to follow but I'd lay a bet that they are all trying the same fiddles and cut backs as their mates in other industries!