Mistakes happen because of people following (or not following) processes, according to their training, education, and experience, enabled or hindered by controls, according to currently available information and courses of action, acting within a system of incentives.
Punishing people for making mistakes might motivate the lazy, but it will not fix systemic issues.
>Also, the reason pilots have less mistakes is because a computer pretty much does 99% of the work. This is not the case with surgery and medicine. Humans still do most of the work.
A number of recent high-profile crashes were blamed, in part, on pilots' manual flying skills getting rusty due to the prevalence of automation. If anything, automation is a leading cause of pilot error.
Punishing people for making mistakes might motivate the lazy, but it will not fix systemic issues.
>Also, the reason pilots have less mistakes is because a computer pretty much does 99% of the work. This is not the case with surgery and medicine. Humans still do most of the work.
A number of recent high-profile crashes were blamed, in part, on pilots' manual flying skills getting rusty due to the prevalence of automation. If anything, automation is a leading cause of pilot error.