Thanks for the reply. I had seen the Aussie video you linked previously. I had not seen the information on the flawed wiring insulation before and arc-tracking is definitely a fire concern across the appliance industry in electrical applications.
However, both of those pieces focused on something other than the problem with MCAS in the new 737.
I am not convinced that a larger more expansive FAA is the correct answer. I am always concerned when larger government is a possibility because we have to find a balance between the free-market and affordable and sustainable government.
I would like to split the baby if possible with some solution that balances safety and oversight with the free market. My whole point is not that mistakes were not made and they should not be corrected, it is a simple caution that we must make sure the “solution” does not become a problem of its own given our recent history of “more government to fix a problem” as illustrated by the examples that I provided.
Was the correct answer to explode FEMA into a first responder agency with their own trucks and warehouses of rotting food and spoiling water? That is what happened.
Was the correct answer for men getting on planes with box-cutters to reorganize and expand immigration and customs enforcement and create and federalize airport security with TSA? That is what happened.
Government has a hammer to fix problems that often require a scalpel. If the last few decades have shown us anything it is that government will create a hammer at every opportunity. Very expensive hammers that are of questionable effectiveness at fixing the original problem and often create additional problems by their own weight.
Respectfully, we would all do well to remember this. The free market and lawsuits for defective products create the best incentive of all for corporations to get things right, not a very expensive government hammer.
To be clear, I never wrote that we need a “bigger FAA”.
This is literally a case of “enforce the current laws and regulations” no different than gun and immigration laws.
If there is any merit to the claims that FAA relaxes the rules as a presidential favor, it deserves an error nvestigatin: People died, unlike “collusion”...