Just a matter of time before the very industrious Airbus astroturfing crowd shows up here to attack Boeing’s safety record and “unfair” U.S. subsidies …

But I digress. Yeah the crash of Air France 447 really does cut to the heart of the interaction of man and machine. I don’t work in aerospace (much to the benefit of the flying public) but I run into the same problem with software user interfaces … make them too simple and people lose engagement to the point where data entry errors actually increase.