How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)
Excellent read and a key concept.<p>I'd had a general idea about this, but it was crystalized by a vehicle dynamics engineer and racer who mentored me in both engineering and race driving.  He said:<p>"You need to know the difference between skill and getting away with something"<p>I.e., just because you survive an event does not mean that it is reliable.  If it is based on skill, you can replicate it and reliably survive.  If it based on luck, well . . . take the bit of grace you were given by the Gods and learn your lesson to not do it again.   Mostly, THINK.