Opinion
Anton Savage: ‘Learn lessons, don’t apportion blame’ is the aviation motto others would do well to adopt
The UK’s Covid inquiry should take a leaf from aviation’s book which has learned lessons from mistakes in the past
The aviation industry relies on mass delusion. We passengers must deny the reality of what flying involves; we cram ourselves into an aluminium tube less than two millimetres thick with several hundred strangers.
We share this tube with a hundred tons of fuel (about the same as two full-size tanker trucks) and once in, not only can we not get out, we can’t even stand up without someone else’s permission.
This tube of humanity and ...
