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Ah yes, back when the seatbelt kept you from falling out of the plane, and your seat cushion was a parachute made from old bed sheets.
Trains are the crabs of transportation. If you optimise something enough, eventually you get a train.
Not to mention they were flying at sight-seeing speeds.
Ohhh so this is what the boys were taking about!
HELL YEAH!
Checklists are for consistency. You can have a hand cranked engine that is quite safe as long as you’re following a thorough checklist
Source: My plane is from 1966, can be hand started, as is quite safe
aaand then you forget the oxygen
I think there may have been a few more fatalities with one system than the other, eh? Let the pilot check his list off, one-by-one, lovingly rubbing the pen back and forth in the little square hole-visual on the white page, slowly blemishing the untouched blankness with the viscous black ink, letting each filled box, each empty space, speak to the other empty spaces in his weary, worn heart.
Lol, yeah, the fatality ratio changed a lot with the checklists.
Even more if you consider the time before they checked the trim… That would have been a really short flight.
Atul Gawande: “The Checklist Manifesto”.
Worth a read.
He’s they guy who created the pre-surgery checklist, using aviation & construction’s insights, in creating his, which forced India to change their S.O.P, because that wasn’t actually competently-worked-out…
Checklists reduce deaths, in aviation, construction, & surgery, all.
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