I read this in an old 1950s era Readers Digest (Harper Subscribers only). Interesting (fictional) article about a jet that was doomed before takeoff by an accumulation of a number of small things each of which would not individually have caused an incident but taken together were fatal. https://harpers.org/archive/1957/09/the-jet-that-crashed-bef...

Edit: Accessible version of the article here. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=2gk-2rP34LIC&pg=RA2-PA14...