Reminds me of the themes in "How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident" (I only found this HN thread [0], but I think there were other

Reminds me of the themes in "How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident" (I only found this HN thread [0], but I think there were others). Their decisions went in opposite directions: that ER adapted to a disaster by decentralizing and diffusing responsibility, whereas this air traffic thing (if this story's accurate) insists on decisions flowing through central points of control–which are degrading under high workload. (I'm *not* asserting if what the NC people are doing is necessarily wrong in context–I don't know enough about air-traffic control to know that). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247841