I can't believe I read this article on HN. People died due to some human error (if it's not the weather it must be some human error somewhere) and the public wants to know why. Media is serving that demand, it could be over-speculating but it doesn't mean that a polit should feel obliged to start defending the engineers on the expense of first categorizing it as a non-catastrophe and then blame the passengers.
To me, listing all the past tragedies to make the point that this one doesn't deserve the public attention is at the very least inconsiderate if not offensive.
Yeah but he seems to take the liberty to speculate that passengers were being selfish in lugging their carry-ons down the aisle while evacuating and endangering others' lives. Unless anybody actually complained about this being an issue in the evacuation process, he's not sticking to the facts either. So please, let's stop with the "let's not speculate" garbage. Everybody will do it. He's just trying to cover for his industry and the people in his profession.
I agree - there was an egregious failure here and if it was due to somehting that could be fixed than it should be. Nobody is asking for a lynching or anything.
And I've no doubt that people whose job it is are already sorting through the available data to work out exactly what did go wrong and whether it's something that can be fixed. But breathless speculation based on the fragments of information available to the media isn't going to make that go any faster.
To me, listing all the past tragedies to make the point that this one doesn't deserve the public attention is at the very least inconsiderate if not offensive.