I'm with you - I can't believe it either but it's true. I think you are well aware of the implications of it all, but for anyone else still wondering about the implications of this:

There is every reason to believe that a "mistake" can be criminalized in some countries when it comes to aviation or anything else like minded. France is one such country where aviation errors and mistakes are in fact criminal acts. Much like China and Brazil, and a few other places. If you are involved in a human error, you may be found criminally liable and go to prison. In these places, it is well known that aviation safety is leveraged politically, and given very large dis-service as true events behind aviation incidents and accidents are often covered up and mis appropriated to others to protect some people from prison. Then the threat and latent hazards are rarely fully addressed. They are left like a disease in the aviation system with only the symptoms partially covered up - but the disease remains.

In many other countries, human errors are not criminalized. The human behavior has to reach criminal negligence and acts of willful safety and regulatory violations before criminal activity can be prosecuted. In the case of the Concorde crash, there were many many human errors much like any incident or accident. Some of these errors were of the caliber where licenses to operate/provide services could have been revoked - but there were no acts of criminal negligence in my opinion.