The negative thing to come out of this is the effect on flight safety, normally one would help with any incident (if one was ever involved in one) which aids the investigation and hopefully prevents the likes of it happening again, confidential reporting etc has always worked for the benefit of all involved in the industry, hopefully preventing accidents happening in the future, but hang a 10 year sentence over someone like this and one could imagine the effect would simply be to shut that avenue of learning and prevention management down to the detriment of safety