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John Zimmerman's avatar

Great recap, Jim. What jumps out at me (again) is how serious the aviation industry is about performing postmortems - even when no metal is bent and nobody is hurt! As you say, we will learn from this, and some minor change to procedure or technology will result. We have certainly adopted a near religious mindset of "Black Box Thinking" (Matthew Syed's phrase).

I can't help but think that is a key reason there were zero fatal accidents in 2022 for either US airlines or US-registered business jets. That is a truly staggering statement, but one we sort of take for granted. Many other industries - including, as you have so often written, the media - could learn from pilots.

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David Holzman's avatar

Wow. Frighteningly fascinating. And yet, I know that commercial flight is far safer than automobiles.

Your interest in this stuff is contagious.

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