I'm saying that if executives get praise and bonuses for when good things happen, they should also have negative consequences when bad things happen. Litigate that further how you wish.

The key word in that is "responsible".

The legal world has plenty of ways for determining if you are legally responsible for the outcome of an event. Right now the standard is civil punishments for provable negligence.

It sounds like GP is proposing a framework where we tighten up the definition of negligence, and add criminal penalties in addition to civil ones.

Are you saying the OP was just a single error, effectively an executives typo.