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HN has a particular fascination with aviation disasters. No disrespect at all, I've learnt more about aviation here than anywhere else. Before I came here I jus
by walthamstow 2y ago
HN has a particular fascination with aviation disasters. No disrespect at all, I've learnt more about aviation here than anywhere else. Before I came here I just assumed the whole thing to be magic.
- windowshopping 2y agoWhy would that be "disrespectful"?
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- walthamstow 2y agoIt could be read as calling people here rubberneckers, which is not exactly a compliment
- kortilla 2y agoThe interest doesn’t come from wanting to see random destruction like rubberneckers do. Commercial passenger aviation is as safe as it gets and incidents require multiple things to go wrong. An aviation disaster is a fascinating thing because it pushes forward safety protocols or engineering safeguards. There is nothing interesting about a car that smashes into a guardrail, which is what rubberneckers are into.
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- belorn 2y agoAn other aspect of aviation disasters that is much more interesting than other disasters is that aviation has had a long history of using a different approach when it comes to investigation and human factors. Even the language we use, like "pilot error" is deeply connected to aviation disaster history, which get applied in many more areas than just aviation.
- fransje26 2y ago> HN has a particular fascination with aviation disasters. HN has a fascination with Boeing's incompetency, greed and corner cutting that resulted in lost lives. That evolved tangentially into an interest in aviation incidents and accidents.
- lucb1e 2y ago> That evolved tangentially into I really think that's some reverse causality here (source: been here since at least 2012, eyeing my account registration date). The Boeing thing is of recent years but commercial airline crashes have always been interesting to many people from my perception
- willis936 2y agoYou can see it in CGPGrey's long defunct Hello Internet podcast. He talked about aviation disasters often and name dropped hacker news a few times.
- FredPret 2y agoJust wanted to point out that Boeing's various disasters are not due to greed but to the combination of stupidity and greed. When smart people get greedy, they build things that last and that they can be proud of, because that's what's best for them long term. Whereas when smart people have zero greed, they build nothing at all. You need a strong motivation to power you through the pain of creating something good.
- walthamstow 2y agoSounds like Hammerstein's classification of soldiers, the stupid/smart/lazy/industrious matrix.
- account42 2y ago> because that's what's best for them long term Is it? Many greedy people seem to happily fail upwards (or sideways to different companies). The baseline for compensation is generally what your previous compensation was, not the long-term success of your creations.
- newsclues 2y agoAs a software focused community, it's interesting to see how engineering is done it safety critical industries.
- account42 2y agoAnd accident investigation! Wish such detailed analysis was done in other fields.