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Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies / John Downer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downer, John (John R.), author.
- Series:
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reliability (Engineering).
- Aircraft accidents--Prevention.
- Aircraft accidents.
- Risk assessment.
- Industrial safety.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "There are limits to what engineers can know, and this means that not every technological failure can be anticipated or avoided. The book explores this observation in the context of technologies that cannot be allowed to fail, e.g., jetliners"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262377010
- 0262377012
- 9780262377027
- 0262377020
- OCLC:
- 1370249598
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