Boeing's Crashes Expose Systemic Failings
> What's more, over the course of his 55 years in the profession, he [lawyer Marc Moller] [has] learned that every plane crash can be traced back to a single, simple cause.<p>I don't know, that strikes me as nonsense. It's precisely the interplay of many factors that lead to an accident - and if any one of them had been different, the outcome might have been different. See Reason's "swiss cheese" model of accidents - all the holes have to line up [1].<p>How you can go and designate one of these holes <i>the</i> hole, the "single, simple cause" is beyond me. This doesn't do the complexity of engineering justice. Might help to win cases with juries, but I don't see how it could help to make flying safer.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model</a>