Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology; An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780066620817 (0066620813)
Publish date: September 1st 2001
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Accidents and disasters are often caused by simple, random events or the change in a normal sequence of actions, any one of which could affect the outcome. Had the path of the Air France Concorde been slightly different, or the piece of titanium not fallen off a DC-10, or the plane left a tad earlie...
Chiles offers a history of many disasters, accidents, misfortunes, and contends that the increasing complexity of machines in the modern age has raised the likelihood of disasters happening. He provides blow-by-blow descriptions of how the many disasters happened, exactly what went wrong. He notes t...
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