This Wikipedia article is really good.
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Ye Gods.
Seafarer Cultures.
Any mention of still sailing with Ukrainian Seafares whose culture is still being fucked up, 3 years on and still can’t go home?
Human error?
100%
Every single failure is human error; from the idea, to the design, to the planning, to the approval (to me, the most important part of the process), to the fulfilment of the project and then the endless, predictable failure.
The whole culture of everything is inherently flawed, it completely relies on trust, something now that has changed I think.
I may have digressed, sorry.
The article mentions the Tenerife airport disaster, in that case the pilot’s decision should have been challenged rather than trust that the decision to take-off was correct.
The Wikipedia article on human error has a section wrt the limitations of that term. I also posted an article about the same subject: The View From the Sharp End
The linked article differentiates between seafarers, at the sharp end and those at the blunt end.
… the seafarers, the people at the sharp end. At the sharp end we find the frontline operators, the people actually doing the task. The blunt end is further away from the action itself. The blunt end is the environment in which the seafarers work. Regulators, designers, shore-side owners and managers function at the blunt end.
Nasa’s 1979 “Resource Management of the Flightdeck” is also mentioned. One thing I’ve not seen elsewhere is a list of the entities in the maritime industry that were involved with converting the airlines’ training to be used by the maritime industry.
- Dutch Maritime Pilots’ Corporation
- Finnish Maritime Administration
- Norwegian Shipowners’ Association
- SAS Flight Academy
- Silja Line
- Swedish Maritime Administration
- Swedish Shipowners’ Association
- The Swedish Club