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> Why cannot descending plane lay a claim on a runway in some computer system and a cabin in Southwest - blare a horn for pilots trying to steer into a claimed
by ekianjo 4y ago
> Why cannot descending plane lay a claim on a runway in some computer system and a cabin in Southwest - blare a horn for pilots trying to steer into a claimed runway?
Because you have unions protecting the manual, error-prone job of human operators.
- lmm 4y agoAnd yet somehow commercial aviation, with its strong unions, ends up safer than virtually any other field of human endeavour.
- hef19898 4y agoMore or less the only real Six Sigma safe industry humanity managed to create. And still, every incident turns everyone into safety and procedurural experts, even before the official incident reports are done. As much as this frustrates me, it has always been like that, and always will be like that.
- euroderf 4y agoAny back-of-the-envelope safety comparisons between the airline industry and manned spaceflight (to include STS) ?
- hef19898 4y agoWhat would that be good for, did a shuttle accident take down an airliner and I am not aware of that?
- amluto 4y agoNuclear power is also extremely safe.
- Schroedingersat 4y ago^1 At the point and time of power generation. Safety may not apply if your ground water was poisoned by a Uranium mine. If your town happens to have its cancer rates triple you probably started smoking or something. You will not be eligiblefor compensation.
- ekianjo 4y agoAnd you know what? It's not because of tower control guys.