Originally Posted by
John Carr
We can only hope.
Going by the previous accident, it will only take a few years of study and hearings and roughly FOUR years before the cargo side sees it.
Doubtful.
After UPS 6, which followed on UPS 1307, we have seen just about ZERO progress on battery transport, or flammable cargo transport that can cause a hull-loss, and possibly a crew loss too.
Since then, Boeing 787's have been in the news too. Same issue - batteries get hot, airplanes break apart.
I don't want to speculate what it will take to extend safety rules on hazardous cargo and fatigue in the passenger industry to cargo, but it is going to take something dramatic, more dramatic than what we've seen so far. And it likely will have to happen in the US, to US citizens.
If not for the families of Colgan 3407 and a coincidentally sympathetic congressional delegation in office at the time, I doubt we've even be discussing the potential of changing the fatigue rules at all.