Design Safety Aspects

In commercial aviation, a single accident is often disastrous. One obvious lesson from the short history of aviation is that most accidents are not the result of unknown scientific principles but are more likely the result of the failure to apply well-known engineering practices.

Another valuable lesson is that technology alone will not provide a solution; and the non-technical issues cannot be ignored. Safety requires control of all aspects of the development and operation of a system. System safety covers the entire spectrum of risk management, from design of hardware to the culture and attitudes of the people involved.

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