Once the theorem and the corollary were understood, the Navy’s statistics about one in every four Navy aviators dying meant nothing. The figures were averages, and applied to those with average stuff. From “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe
Theorem: There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff. Corollary: no single factor ever killed a pilot; there was always a chain of mistakes.
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