Comment by otherme123

3 years ago

I've read dozens of Admiral Cloudberg articles, and when you do so you notice a pattern: in old aviation crashes, a single error or a single part failure usually took down a plane with tens of dead bodies. Also the story of how and why the sterile flight deck started in response to some crashes where the pilots were distracted talking. In modern aviation accidents, it seems very unlikely. Even with an engine exploding, the pieces ripping half the cables, a wing, the fuel reservoir, hydraulics, and the airplane is still almost perfectly flyable and landable. Do the same to any car, were nothing is redundant, and lets see how well it performs.

The beauty of it is that everyone in aviation seems eager to learn and build on errors. This event prompted new actions that makes future flying even safer, despite having no victims.

That's the problem. Even if there were victims, one could've written the exact same article about “flying even safer”.