Yeah, I suppose they thought that the recordings would used primarily to assign blame to pilots, but I don't think this has been the case. Even when the cause o

Yeah, I suppose they thought that the recordings would used primarily to assign blame to pilots, but I don't think this has been the case. Even when the cause of a crash is assigned to "pilot error", there is a general recognition that it is a failure of the whole system and that the plane often didn't give (or gave misleading) information to the pilots.