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by logicalmonster 1233 days ago
I'm not in the aviation industry or an aviation expert, but it seems like they have a really healthy approach towards viewing failures even though their failures can cost hundreds of lives and are far more impactful than some dumb bug in a dumb social media website.

When something goes wrong in aviation, they don't seem to rush to blame the pilot or an individual engineer who coded or welded something badly.

They look at the overall process and view it as a process failure.

They look at the flight checklist requirements and see if there are are any ambiguities or gaps.

They look at the manufacturing process and try and figure out if there are any better QA tests they can do.

They look at the design of the plane and see if there's anything that might have been overlooked as a possible issue.