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The reference is to the non too disguised attempt by some to attribute the accident or parts of the accident to the machine and not the human, cultural, management and training issues. One, of course, welcomes a spirit of inquiry but one is forced to question why so many otherwise rational people are so excised by the possibility that the flight crew got things wrong and that this was the only reason for the crash. I am afraid that I keep coming back to the adage - we try to make the machine foolproof but God keeps on designing better fools (not that I think that the flight crew were fools, just that is the adage). No matter how well a machine is designed someone will find a way to evade it's safety features and wreck it. The man/machine interface strikes me as another red herring I'm afraid.