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...