Honestly, I think every engineering project I've ever worked on has had similar comments to this during the prototype stage. Us engineers are a sarcastic bunch of drama Queens when put under pressure.
The problem is, it's bad PR to kill hundreds of people, for an entirely avoidable design flaw, where internal records show your staff were well aware of the design flaw, have gone to great length to prevent the regulator knowing about it, where your staff have literally defined the steps required to prevent it, but the commercial managers still force it through due to competitive pressures.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
