Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "A Perfect Storm of Mistakes! And how Heroic Pilots Almost solved it." video.

  1. During my career I've had people try the "nothing bad has happened therefore there's no reason to change what we're doing" excuse for not doing anything. My response is "Have you conducted a hazard analysis followed by a risk assessment, and identified if the existing controls mitigate the risk So Far As Reasonably Practicable (SFARP)?", which is the law in my country. One particular case comes to mind, where the response was "We have 1,000 of these out in the field for five years and no-one's dead yet", to which I asked "OK, how many were actually operating for the full five years, as opposed to sitting in storage or powered down, being rotated through the maintenance pipeline, etc?" They couldn't answer that, which immediately blew a hole in their "no accidents in 5,000 operating years" statistic underpinning their safety argument.
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