As the saga of Flight 370 is played out with money and resources thrown into the search one learns more and more about the ineffectual grasp the bodies who govern our affairs have.  How poorly served we are by these well paid honcho's sitting on agencies such as the Airlines Supervisory Body people who are gifted the job of keeping us safe when we fly. 

The Air France plane which went down much like this one and which took 2 years to find the black box resulted in a whole raft of suggestions to avoid a similar occurrence.Suggestions such as, enlarge the batteries on the black box transmitter, change the frequency to a lower one giving a much wider range of signal, develop the box to break free of the wreckage so it can float to the surface. Sensible recommendations but with the inertia of the establishment, nothing was done to modify anything and we once again struggle for answers. 

I wonder if these quango type organisations, laying outside of the public domain and therefore immune to scrutiny are not just the sticking plaster politicians put in place and claim "not on my patch Gov", when anything goes wrong.