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Old 11th Jun 2016, 13:03
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The recent report reminds me of the expectation that responsible participants in an event, will apply there best thinking to mitigate negative outcome. The investigation into the fatal fire in Apollo 1 included the concept of "failure of imagination". Witnesses being interviewed stated that the accident was a failure of imagination - they did not think far enough outside the core of what they were doing to imagine the possible bad outcomes. They were qualified and able to think [imagine] that, just did not.

As aviation professionals, it is our responsibility to think as far ahead and wide as our minds allow, as to what occurrence, or combination of events could come together to cause bad - and then act to prevent, or at least mitigate that. Every now and again, events occur in society, which in hind sight, could have been reasonably imagined, and at least mitigated. Such events serve to remind we aviation professionals to do better. This was such an event.
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