System Crash, Plane Crash: Lessons from Commercial Aviation and Other Engineering Fields

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Comparisons use concrete incidents and fixes: Air France 447 stalls and Air France 447 228 dead expose sensor failure plus missing manual training, United 232 shows improvised control and 60% survived after hydraulic loss, US Airways 1549 ditches with zero passenger fatalities since 2009 cited as a safety metric. Recommendations include checklists, flight-simulator style drills, crew resource management, stricter test matrices, automated CI for certified code and exploring structured distributed tracing for reconstructing outages.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:15Im tired of bad experiences
3. 1:35Disclaimers
4. 2:27Memory Lane
5. 3:31Korean Airlines 002
6. 4:14United 232
7. 4:58US Airways 1549
8. 5:32Air France 447
9. 6:04Two Outcomes
10. 6:26Why do we have this contradiction
11. 7:04Allan Deal quote
12. 7:33Dave Donald Dolan quote
13. 8:03What happened
14. 12:38Sensors go bad
15. 15:10Plane crashes
16. 16:14Complex systems
17. 17:44The big one
18. 18:08World War II
19. 18:36Wild West
20. 19:59Life Safety
21. 20:24Spectrum of Choice
22. 21:14Data Control
23. 21:54Machine Learning
24. 23:10Life Safety Critical
25. 24:53Narrative Conflict
26. 25:53Unknown Phenomenon
27. 26:29Person vs Society
28. 26:53Automation
29. 28:37Human Performance Factors
30. 29:54PostMortem Reports
31. 30:57Collective Reports
32. 33:09How Many of You Are Lying
33. 35:03The MGM Grand Fire
34. 36:35Checklists
35. 37:55Humans are bad
36. 38:33Cognitive load under stress
37. 39:01Pattern matchers
38. 39:59Sterile cockpit rule
39. 41:44Cognitive biases
40. 42:03Normalization ofdeviance
41. 42:36Confirmation bias
42. 43:18Near misses
43. 44:10Ethics fails
44. 47:02Crew Resource Management
45. 48:36Communication Training
46. 49:52Culture Matters
47. 51:04UI Interactions
48. 51:53UI Matters
49. 52:55Logging
50. 54:01Training
51. 55:50Regulation

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