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FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: the greater the impact to the organizat…
It’s a natural response, because the greater the impact, the more unsettling it is to people: they worry very specifically about that incident recurring, and want to prevent that from happening again. Nobody wants an incident to recur, and so there’s a natural built-in mechanism for engineering teams to put in the effort to do preventative work. And that brings us to near misses, those operational surprises that have no actual impact, but could have been a major incident if conditions were slightly different.
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