These days, it's not a matter of having "the right school tie", it's a matter of having had a degree in liberal arts, being totally ignorant about actual operations and screaming "I know better than you, scum" at the plebs, especially when the plebs are pointing out that things are going to go badly wrong if they keep on going the way they are doing things.
Hence this, the Boeing disaster and quite a lot of other issues that are probably either being quietly resolved by somebody more competent and swept under the carpet, or like this and Boeing end up going off like a volcano.