If people are being injured by faulty airplanes, it seems clear to me that the liability rests with the manufacturer, and the AMA should not be accepting the costs. There are three ways to resolve this: 1) the manufacturer voluntarily stops making defective planes, 2) the gov't regulates, or 3) the courts require the manufacturer to accept liability. From their posts on RCU, I'd say #2 and #3 are anathema to the RCU community, and given that bias, there's no chance of #1. Note that with any other consumer product, the widely hated (on RCU) court system would take care of the issue. Suppose you had a circular saw model where the saw blade broke off and ran amok cutting up the user. Either the courts or the government would take action, and the problem would be solved, and those injured compensated (yes, the lawyers would take a cut, but the problem would be solved). Or, we could endlessly debate it here in RCU. What do you think is most likely?