Its amazing what you can pick up at second hand book stores. i paid $1 for a 1969 edition of David Beaty's "The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents" I will quote the final 2 paragraphs which shows that the industry really is a hamster wheel.
"With two and often three pilots watching each other and making their own individualistic judgements, particularly if they could form a crew team and always fly together in an adequately controlled flying environment,pilot human-factor accidents should be virtually impossible....Flying should be and could be by far the safest from of travel. In the decade of the 1970s, when airbuses carrying up to a thousand passengers and supersonic flying at over 2000 miles and hour will be taking off over densely populated areas,it must be so."
Much to be learned from dem ol'books.