"School bus hit by drunk driver! Children hurt and taken to a local hospital!"
"Community in shock! Outrage expressed for not having seat belts on the bus!"
The above did take place a few years ago. The real problems are the drunk driver and the constant obsession for a technical solution for everything, while avoiding the tougher questions of how to deal with man's fallen nature and tendency to do wrong.
IMO, the auto-pilot, auto-land idea is a joke. But if Steve is a good friend of Mr. Condit and well connected, he could probably legally plunder a small fortune from the taxpayers.
We use a technical solution called penicillin to treat syphilis. Syphilis is caused by moral failings.