Originally Posted by flyingnewbie10
study dealing with problems with a machine called "Therac25"
Leveson and Turner's study of the Therac accidents is a classic of computer safety. The link you gave is the most accessible on-line version. It's not on Nancy's WWW site.
I don't think any of the lessons from this story in computer safety in medicine has much relevance to aviation. The cultures are exceptionally different. Let me briefly indicate although it's halfway off-topic. The Therac story was a lot about incompetent engineering (also incompetent user-interface engineering and complete lack of safety analysis) as well as about the lack of any traceability of incidents histories. Aerospace pays a lot of attention to safety analysis and user-interface engineering, and has an international system (or collection of systems) for logging and learning from incidents (the all-operators Telex/Service Bulletin/AD system).
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