Throwing money at government just to make it expensive won't fix this kind of problem.<p>What if a bigger, fatter, better funded FAA is still in cahoots with Boeing?
Many people don't realize that as much as we like to complain about big government and wasteful spending, the private sector is just as bad, or worse in some cases.
>It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade — and that America’s commercial airlines have assembled an enviable safety record over that period. But the available evidence also suggests that America’s refusal to adequately fund the F.A.A. allowed corporations to gain inordinate influence over a public-sector function — and many people died as a result.<p>This is classic motivated reasoning. The authors know that the US Airline safety profile over that time is stellar. Knowing they can’t base their claim on the actual statistical safety record, thy resort to using a comparison with vague words such as ‘suggests’ and ‘inordinate’ and emotionally charged phrases: such as ‘corporations to gain inordinate influence’ and ‘many people died.’<p>They are hoping that your emotional brain will overlook the lack of argument of real quantitative evidence and jump on the emotional bits of the argument.<p>This is similar to how anti-immigration groups will seize on a high profile crime committed by an immigrant and use that to say that immigration should be stopped/cut back without discussing if immigrants are actually more likely to commit violent crimes than natives.
Seems like in the U.S. the pilots are properly trained and are capable of handling the difference in the new vs old aircraft.<p>Other countries aren't fairing so well. Is this a failing of the U.S. Government's FAA? No.<p>I have a good friend who was a Naval aviator and did crash investigations for the Navy, his ordered list for causes of aviation crashes. The top 3 causes he believes are responsible for 99.9% of all crashes.<p>1. Pilot error due to fatigue (Which the U.S. has made strides to drastically reduce)
2. Pilot error not due to fatigue
3. Pilot lack of training
4. Plane failure (hardware, software, mechanical, etc)
There is only one way to fix this problem folks. Privatize the FAA, deregulate airplane manufacture, and use the money saved to give the rich a tax cut. The rich will then trickle down on the planes to save us from these software issues.