{"id":268393,"date":"2019-04-08T05:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268393"},"modified":"2019-04-08T05:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:17:29","slug":"opinion-black-box-thinking-and-the-descent-of-jet-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-black-box-thinking-and-the-descent-of-jet-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | \u2018Black box thinking\u2019 and the descent of Jet Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s de Havilland Comet I was the world\u2019s first commercially produced jetliner, but it was grounded after a number of mysterious crashes in the 1950s. A detailed, massive investigation identified the flaw: Hairline cracks from the plane\u2019s square windows spread across the fuselage and caused the whole machine to come apart. That\u2019s why planes now have oval windows. The more significant consequence of the investigation, though, was the installation of a near-indestructible flight data recorder, the black box, in every aircraft. The aviation industry is remarkable for its good safety record\u2014and that\u2019s because mistakes are learned from, rather than concealed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of thinking that has entered management parlance\u2014the term \u201cblack box thinking&#8221; was coined by Matthew Syed. The idea that makes black box thinking so compelling is: Success is possible only when we confront mistakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s de Havilland Comet I was the world\u2019s first commercially produced jetliner, but it was grounded after a number of mysterious crashes in the 1950s. A detailed, massive investigation identified the flaw: Hairline cracks from the plane\u2019s square windows spread across the fuselage and caused the whole machine to come apart. That\u2019s why planes now have oval windows. The more significant consequence of the investigation, though, was the installation of a near-indestructible flight data recorder, the black box, in every aircraft. The aviation industry is remarkable for its good safety record\u2014and that\u2019s because mistakes are learned from, rather than concealed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}