[michaelt]

  good luck with changing hundreds of established, 
  life-or-death-systems, most of them actually
  embedded in planes

Seems to me that's precisely the sort of thing the NTSB _is_ supposed to be able to do?

Of course IMHO a mere change of case doesn't go far enough.

[DocTomoe]

You do realize that US planes still have to be able to fly to countries other than the US, and vice versa, right?