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Old 1st Jun 2013, 16:07
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Things to keep in mind

You can't eliminate human error, only minimize it

Some ideas for minimization are

by rote

duplication of tasks

Tolerance to the error

The one lesson I learned in this incident was that the tolerance bit was not as much as I expected from my experience.

I suspect it's rather easy to recommend BA clean up their possibility of human error and SOPs but that just pushes a repeat downstream to somebody else next time for a different reason altogether.

I've seen lots of collateral damage to aircraft from small bits being dislodged and no loss of safe flight and landing that I can think of (I know somebody's gonna come up with one but it's the likelihood I work with)

I am surprised about the collateral damage as reported to the right hand engine leading to a fire. I would want this looked at very closely by the AAIB for opportunities for minimization of effect.
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