The 60mins segment served a good purpose - try not to get too caught up in the specifics and understand that they were presenting the show in a manner that your average viewer will comprehend. (in many cases, statistically the audience has a grade 8 education!).
Yes, there was nothing 'too' mindblowingly new about it for most of us - on the other hand it will cause ripples that have the potential to reveal the many core issues people speak of (inept regulator - dodgy management - etc).
The last decade has seen more than a couple of close calls on flights to and from NLK - some well known, others not so much. My concern is whether this will be a big enough wake up call for bean counters to understand that they are toiling with human lives and not just insurance premiums. The true test of tombstone technology is whether lessons can be learnt from 'close calls' or does it continue until a memorial is erected.
The issue is amplified by the fact that like erebus for nz, such an event has the potential to affect us all on a very very personal level.
I fear that if this is not enough to spur the regulator into being more than a token paper tiger, what will be must surely be an incomprehensible disaster.
If it were to do with increasing fees, adding a level of administration to medicals, exams or so forth, they would be far more proactive??