Richard de Crespigny
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And even flying an airplane is safer than going into a hospital.
So measurement of risk will give you guidance as to, well, confidence.
You see, when a pilot moves a thrust levers up to take off an airplane, they're taking off into the unknown.
They've got, they've got an A380 has 4 million parts, $400 million, a thousand computers.
And I didn't make them.
I don't know how they all work.
You trust the people, the engineers and everyone did a good job.
But things happen.
Life is unfair.
Terrible things happen.
And so the pilot, as he takes off, has this chronic unease.
It's not anxiety.
It's not fear.
He's got this chronic...
that he's prepared for things going wrong.
He's aware.
Now, this is the critical thing.
It was Alan Joyce told a conference many years ago.
He said pilots were procedural leaders.
They followed checklists.