Agreed, the study of past accidents is helpful, but alone is not the answer. It is easy to read about an accident and say I won't do that because look what happened. It is harder to look at ones own discipline and change the way we think.
For instance, why is it that in Australia there is still a large number of fuel related incidents/accident every year. There are plenty of digests still around about these kinds of accidents but still it happens.
In closing, my belief is that digests are only helpful if we ask ourselves, How can I reduce the risk of that happening to me, rather than, I won't do that if it happens to me?
To all have a very MERRY XMAS, FLY SAFELY and HAVE FUN.
