The UK's railroad minister, in his previous job, threatened to denycontracts arbitrarily to an engineering company unless it bullied aworker into ceasing to raise safety concerns. In response, thecompany fired him.

I am not competent to judge the validity of those safety concerns.What is clear is that gagging a qualified person who reports safetyconcerns, rather than investigating them properly, is Boeing-like and is afailure of responsibility to passengers and others.

I think such conduct ought to be a crime.