Good luck with the book! Here’s a graph of commercial aviation fatalities, which has now basically trended to zero even as the number of flights has risen exponentially. If you want a model of an ind… (View Post)

Indeed so. Ask Boeing how the last couple of decades of replacing engineers with MBAs in the management grades has gone. That said, the graph of commercial aviation accidents over time is utterly ast… (View Post)

Absolutely. Transport accidents pretty much stopped happening because the NTSB (in the UK the AAIB and RIAB) investigates every incident and accident, and makes recommendations aimed at preventing th… (View Post)

I’d say that establishing beyond reasonable doubt that a succession of government ministers and PO managers were a waste of their expense accounts was very much a laudable activity. (View Post)

What a brilliant header, well done Mrs @Cyclefree As someone for whom the Challenger disaster was one of his earliest news memories, aged eight at the time, the inquiry and reporting on the incident … (View Post)