Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers has a chapter about airplane crashes=20
due to cultural norms/conventions that is fascinating.  It was almost=20
always a combination of bad weather, technical malfunction in the plane=20
or at the airport, and communication between pilot/copilot and air=20
traffic control.

For a different angle on 'experiencing' aviation accidents and=20
incidents, you can't beat the brilliant Charlie Victor Romeo:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Victor_Romeo>
if you have any unease about flying, do not watch.

J




RussellMc wrote:
> I think this really belongs in [TECH] but as some won't like the material
> I'll post it in [OT].
> Lessons applicable in many other areas can be learned from this.
>
> To me this has similarity on a smaller and larger scale  ($ & lives) with
> STS Challenger disaster (and many other disasters).
>
> - "Root cause": *Faulty circuit board solder joints *in a circuit board
> allowed unsafe rudder angles in high speed flight.
>
> Followed by: Improper over-ride of overlayed protective system by pilots
> was possible and was carried out.
>
> - (What seems to me personally only as) criminally-stupid contributing
> cause: System was known to have had failed intermittently 20+ times
> throughout 2014 and had never been fixed.
>
> - Final fatal causes:
>
> 1. Pilots followed out a reset action they'd seen maintenance men use on
> the ground.
> 2. Airbus system allowed auto-pilot and auto-thrust to be disabled by thi=
s
> action and not restored.
> 3. Vastly inadequate pilot training.
> 4. Lack of worst case "'thinking it through" analysis of possible outcome=
s
> by Airbus.
>
> *Hackaday:*
>
> Reasonable summary. Too many excuses offered for my liking.
>
>
> http://hackaday.com/2015/12/04/airasia-crash-analysis-who-or-what-failed/
>
> *Final Report:*
> (206 page pdf)(in English)
>
>          http://kemhubri.dephub.go.id/.../Final%20Report%20PK-AXC.pdf
> <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fkemhubri.dephub.go.id%2Fkn=
kt%2Fntsc_aviation%2Fbaru%2FFinal%2520Report%2520PK-AXC.pdf&h=3D3AQH2NREZ>
>
>
> *Documentation page:*
>          http://kemhubri.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_home/ntsc.htm
> <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fkemhubri.dephub.go.id%2Fkn=
kt%2Fntsc_home%2Fntsc.htm&h=3DHAQFC2Mlq>
>
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