[MV=PY]

"If you were designing an aircraft would you wire mission critical networks to a box in the passenger seat? ... No, but if accountants and management are involved, I can see it being a possibility. "

Really? Why would they want to take on the extra expense and risk?

[jonascord]

"Really? Why would they want to take on the extra expense and risk?"

To save .25 cents of wire. Bean counters and engineers are at each other's throats from the womb. Bean counters never seem to realize that if the plane goes down, they aren't the ones that have to explain it to a judge.