Does anyone have a view about the rights or wrongs of using short bursts of reverse thrust as a braking device while taxi-ing and even coming to a stop on the ramp ? I have seen this from on board a Ryanair 737-200 at Stansted (but only once, a few years back). I am myself neither particularly for nor against Ryanair.
As for the Titanic, it was indeed a pretty safe vessel for its day, or should have been. It sank due to a whole range of human factors shortcomings, of the sort that usually lead to major air disasters. The primary ones were the decision not to have enough lifeboats and a certain human pride in trying to make a faster than planned crossing. The old Swiss cheese theory.