The records of the ATSB (and its predecesors) and its worldwide counterparts, are littered with nearlies and what might have beens.
Those same records also contain the instances where the lessons of the nearlies and what might have beens have been either ignored or not understood.
There are also those reports that have had a beneficial outcome as well.
Sandilands contention is neither right or wrong just cleverly constructed wordsmithing.
