Hasn't this always been the case with flight safety? The "I learned about flying from that" series in Air Clues was partly intended to gently highlight that chains of events lead to accidents, all it takes to prevent an accident is one link in the chain to be broken.
Accident reports are full of findings where a sequence of failings led to the accident, often just preventing one of those would have prevented it, or at least lessened its severity.
Who can honestly hold up there hand and say they have never made an error?
I clearly remember two, either of which could have killed me or caused the loss of the aircraft, but by good fortune everyone else had been diligent and so none of the "holes in the Swiss cheese" lined up on those sorties. No one has yet invented the infallible human being, or the perfectly trained one, come to that.
Last edited by _Agrajag_; 9th Dec 2022 at 12:28.
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