It's so interesting to read on aviation postmortems even for people that don't fully understand all the technical details as explained in the article (great by

It's so interesting to read on aviation postmortems even for people that don't fully understand all the technical details as explained in the article (great by the way, kudos to the author). I've always wondered if there is an authoritative database with all significant events in aviation to read and learn more about? Do pilots study past events as part of their training?