Comment by PaulHoule

It's the argument of Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691004129/no...

which is a book that I enjoy less now than the first time I read it. He was worried that shipping and aviation were both going to get more dangerous whereas that perception of a safety crisis in shipping in the 1970s went away and aviation got much much safer.