For context, I'm a licensed pilot and my father spent most of his career working at Transport Canada, basically Canada's FAA. So this is one of those topics I p

For context, I'm a licensed pilot and my father spent most of his career working at Transport Canada, basically Canada's FAA. So this is one of those topics I probably know more than the average HNer about. What I've noticed more broadly is that there are lots of people on HN with high general intelligence who believe it automatically translates to specific domain knowledge in aviation, medicine, etc., when if quizzed they would likely know far less than they believe they do. So when it comes to quality improvement, for example, they likely haven't spent time at a car factory, or at a Boeing plant, and understand it via bastardized analogies (i.e. Kaizen in software development really isn't the same as in manufacturing) rather than domain expertise. Deep domain expertise is difficult to obtain unless you're really immersed in an industry. The desire to "make someone pay" when errors happen is antithetical to a culture of quality improvement. The accident report for the Lion Air incident actually paints a picture of a complex failure rather than simply being the fault of the software, but that doesn't really get reported on. Hence my issue with the media. Inflammatory headlines and speculation cause people to believe they know more than they actually do about something, and the public pressure drives action that may be totally inappropriate.