Why you've never been in a plane crash
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Why you've never been in a plane crash
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Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash
#2...by Kyra Dempsey, a.k.a. Admiral Cloudberg, who has a long series of in-depth airplane crash investigation articles on Medium: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
This is her Medium article on the LAX runway collision: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/cleared-to-collide-the-c... - with further details that would probably have distracted from the point she's trying to make in the Asterisk article (e.g. that the controller who made the fatal mistake was originally hired after Ronald Reagan fired and banned from rehiring 11,345 air traffic controllers in 1981 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...)
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#4...by Kyra Dempsey, a.k.a. Admiral Cloudberg, who has a long series of in-depth airplane crash investigation articles on Medium: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ This is her Medium article on the LAX runway collision: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/cleared-to-collide-the-c... - with further details that would probably have distracted from the point she's trying to make in the Asterisk article (e.g. that the…
This is however not her usual writing style as used for the blog.
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#5This is the first time I've heard of "just culture" and wish it would spread to other areas of the world and life.
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#6This is the first time I've heard of "just culture" and wish it would spread to other areas of the world and life.
The ability to drop blame from the equation is a credit to the aviation industry and would drastically improve any team, organisation, or industry to adopt it.
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#7"Cutting straight to the case, Wascher was not punished in any way."
Have to appreciate a writer who doesn't force you to read until the very end of their piece in order to get the ending of the story.
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#8Related: CAST analysis http://sunnyday.mit.edu/CAST-Handbook.pdf
Intended to focus on maximal learning about all factors that contributed to an accident. It subsumes several approaches, including a blameless analysis and that each factor doesn't just have a single "cause" but that different factors form a network of interaction.
Also nitpicking about the headline: You haven't been in a place crash because you wouldn't be reading this if you were :)
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#9Reminds me of the guy at GitLab, I believe it was, who accidentally and irreversibly deleted a bunch of repositories. GitLab had a fantastic approach to that whole ordeal and public embarrassment. They essentially blamed themselves for not having the proper contingencies in place instead of blaming the individual. It's worth reading up on.
Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash
#10...by Kyra Dempsey, a.k.a. Admiral Cloudberg, who has a long series of in-depth airplane crash investigation articles on Medium: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ This is her Medium article on the LAX runway collision: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/cleared-to-collide-the-c... - with further details that would probably have distracted from the point she's trying to make in the Asterisk article (e.g. that the…
This is however not her usual writing style as used for the blog.
It is, it's just a slightly more formal variant of it.