Its all a slippery slope. If you had shown this outcome to the execs prior to starting down the path they took, none of them would have chosen said path. Execs

Its all a slippery slope. If you had shown this outcome to the execs prior to starting down the path they took, none of them would have chosen said path. Execs think they are being "good managers" when they push for more from less, because they force the worker bees to be innovative. Yeah, sometimes that happens, but many times the restriction is just arbitrary and causes corners to be cut. What seems to have happened in my mind is that the managers pushed people down a path, and there was a knowledge gap combined with a lack of oversight that caused people to die. To walk back what I said above slightly, I think that the execs really screwed up here, and there is some house cleaning in order at minimum and possible criminal liability. I think this really stresses the importance of thorough if not downright adversarial oversight by the FAA.