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The thing most major disasters involving human built things have in common is that it is often a series of failures. An 'alignment of the planets' where everyt
by mjevans 10y ago
The thing most major disasters involving human built things have in common is that it is often a series of failures. An 'alignment of the planets' where everything happens to fall in to place and that string of 1-s comes up on the cosmic die to let you die.
What this article is covering is how much closer, by a wide margin, Allegiant's running to that result than other airlines in the US.
- gameshot911 10y agoThe 'alignment of the planets' is known in certain industries as the Swiss cheese model[1]. [1]https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swiss_cheese_model https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swiss_cheese_model
- sqeaky 10y agoThat is an interesting way to describe "defense in depth" to non-technical people that ought to be easy to understand. Thank you.
- arjie 10y agoOn certain studied construction sites, it was observed that number of reported incidents correlates negatively with fatality rate. Fig 7.1 on Sidney Dekker's _Field Guide to Understanding Human Error_. I don't have the book any more, but I believe the idea was that emphasizing number of incidents only led to incident suppression.