<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MyDearMiles:
[BI would think that the US aviation regulators or whichever governmental bodies that sees about airline safety would not allow them or any airline to keep flying passengers if they were not "safe" to fly.[/B]</font>
The FAA's oversight relies heavily on the assumption that the operator is attempting to comply with the regulations. When an operator takes short cuts and intentionally tries to avoid detection, the chances of the violations going undetected are fairly good. The FAA simply doesn't have the resources, or funding to develop the resources, that would be necessary to monitor all of the airlines closely enough to reliably detect violations that are being actively concelaed.