1 Look, frenz, the ICAO is dangerously insubordinate to the FAA, so we probably need to nuke the ICAO managed airports to make air travel safe again. 

(If you think I am serious, I may need to work harder to go over the top.)

My true position is that I would need to familiarize myself with stats to really understand if a specific incident is unusual, or should be unusual.  I think the media overhypes.  I think that there would always be an excess of safety incidents following shutting down most of the economy for no good reason.

Also, the universities have fucked up the university business, and that would always have cost and expense for university trained experts and 'experts'. 

I can be sympathetic to the view that the FAA should be a jobs program for me, for a bunch of engineers, and for some scientists.  However, engineers have a major problem now when it comes to telling the public to do expensive things.  The public has a very licit set of reasons to have a negative response if that an engineer does not work to be persuasive beyond 'because I say so'. 

I think the bad actors from universities have been, or could be, expensive enough that refusal to consult relatively sound people could be worthwhile in the broader picture.

And the Biden regime pushed through a political and stupid effort to electrify aviation propulsion.  There's a case that such could have justified reeeing over the safety hit of the lost opportunities to build safe conventional turbines.