Yes, it does, until it doesn't! ;-)
The notion of "amoral calculation" was used by Vaughn in her book on Challenger. She slowly shifted in her view that NASA engineers and managers intentionally placed the shuttle and the crew at risk due to production pressures and long-term cost-controls. She eventually concluded that the very opposite was occurring...that everyone thought that they were doing exactly the right thing.
I think we can take it that the PF thought the same thing. I am hoping that the BEA HF Group can do for the crew of AF447 and all those affected, the same thing that Vaughn did for the crew of Challenger.