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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by toomanybeersies on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:01PM (#11941939)
This is how aeroplanes fall out of the sky. Pilots think they know more than the engineers, and decide to skip the checklist, where the checklist includes a very rare edge case that the pilot has never encountered.
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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by ebrenes on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:34PM (#11955984)
Reminds me of this case where airlines routinely skipped a step during maintenance because it took too much time. Skipping that step in the manufacturer's process ended up costing 273 people their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#E...

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