This reminded me of a passage on pilot checklists from The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: > Commercial pilots have been using checklists for decades. Gaw

This reminded me of a passage on pilot checklists from The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: > Commercial pilots have been using checklists for decades. Gawande traces this back to a fly-off at Wright Field, Ohio, in 1935, when the Army Air Force was choosing its new bomber. Boeing's entry, the B-17, would later be built by the thousands, but on that first flight it took off, stalled, crashed and burned. The new airplane was complicated, and the pilot, who was highly experienced, had forgotten a routine step. > > From http://old.seattletimes.com/html/books/2010737113_br08checklist.html http://old.seattletimes.com/html/books/2010737113_br08checkl...