Category: Lessons from Disasters

The sinking of the Titanic led in 1914 to SOLAS, the world’s first international treaty on safety at sea. Ship safety stopped being a patchwork of national rules and became a single set of standards shared by the whole world.

In 1977, two jumbo jets collided in the fog at Tenerife airport — the worst accident in aviation history. The disaster forced a fundamental overhaul of the language used between controllers and pilots, and of hierarchy inside the cockpit.