So lately I've been watching this show on the National Geographic channel here that is telling me things that it seems better not knowing. The show is about commercial flights that crashed (or almost crashed). It's an hour long show. The first half hour is about what happened from the point of view of the passengers and the pilots and the second half hour is about what actually caused the problems with the flight and what could have been done to prevent it. The scary part is the fact that the answer to the questions "what caused this horrible event?" is always one of two things:

A. The airline wanted to save some money so they decided to ignore a clear problem that the plane is having because they didn't wanna spend a little extra money fixing the plane, or

B. The design of the plane was flawed because the company that made the plane wanted to make a little more cash so they cut some engineering corners to pad their bottom line a bit.

Ok, I must admit that sometimes it's not one of these things...but only when it's BOTH! So this show is on almost every night, and every night the airline tries to cover up their "cost-cutting measures" so they don't have to pay millions to the relatives of the two hundred people that were killed to save the airline a few bucks. I've seen about 15 episodes of this show and not once has the crash been unavoidable. Actually, in all but one of the 15 episodes so far, somewhere along the line a mechanic reported to his supervisor that there was a problem he needed to fix but was told to ignore it (or do a really shoddy/quick repair job) to get the plane back in the air quickly. Kinda freaks you out to know that the company you're trusting your life to is more interested in money than the lives of the 200 people on the plane.