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You: Mistakes happen because of people
Article: When a space shuttle crashes or an oil tanker leaks, our instinct is to look for a single, “root” cause. This often leads us to the operator: the person who triggered the disaster by pulling the wrong lever or entering the wrong line of code. But the operator is at the end of a long chain of decisions, some of them taken that day, some taken long in the past, all contributing to the accident; like achievements, accidents are a team effort.
> the reason pilots have less mistakes is because a computer pretty much does 99% of the work
Except in take-off and landing, which is when most accidents happen. Also, automation would not have helped at all in the United 173 situation - that was clear human error, and the reason those kinds of errors happen less are due to the accident investigation and human resource management techniques this article is talking about:
> To the great credit of the aviation industry, it became one of the most influential disasters in history. Galvanised by it and a handful of other crashes from the same era, the industry transformed its training and safety practices, instituting a set of principles and procedures known as CRM: crew resource management.
You: Mistakes happen because of people
Article: When a space shuttle crashes or an oil tanker leaks, our instinct is to look for a single, “root” cause. This often leads us to the operator: the person who triggered the disaster by pulling the wrong lever or entering the wrong line of code. But the operator is at the end of a long chain of decisions, some of them taken that day, some taken long in the past, all contributing to the accident; like achievements, accidents are a team effort.
> the reason pilots have less mistakes is because a computer pretty much does 99% of the work
Except in take-off and landing, which is when most accidents happen. Also, automation would not have helped at all in the United 173 situation - that was clear human error, and the reason those kinds of errors happen less are due to the accident investigation and human resource management techniques this article is talking about:
> To the great credit of the aviation industry, it became one of the most influential disasters in history. Galvanised by it and a handful of other crashes from the same era, the industry transformed its training and safety practices, instituting a set of principles and procedures known as CRM: crew resource management.