hi borescope....
"The silence is deafening !!"
A societal thing? The case can be made that in a culture where almost all the people allow others to make decisions for them, there will be an environment of acceptance....
Can anyone come up with a more disturbing in flight emergency than an incontinent engine at altitude? Cabin fire? Loss of vertical Stabilizer?
The culture is adversarial...there is much to be gained by maintaining a level of ignorance in the client base. How is this done?
Post incident "damage control". But there is a balance to be struck, when the client base is not informed, and subject to unwarranted and hysterical press.
QF 32, a case in point? The appetite for hysteria is satisfied; once encountered, any anomalous near-disaster becomes less interesting, especially when there is a "hero" or three to trot out, to solidify our need to be protected from danger.
Minimize the good Captain? Not at all, his work, and that of his mates was exemplary. The technical issues were initially not popularly known, became so, and have now retreated back into the protective coccoon of proprietary issues, and minimized data.
No one has written a book about the initiating technical problems. That is a book I would buy. A book about a competent crew doing what they are paid to do?
Pass.....