As you may know by now, there has been a paradigmatic shift in identifying the causal factors that lead to aircraft accidents. Initially, accidents were primarily attributed to proximal factors (in other words, pilot error), while today, many other upstream, or distal, factors are being identified (such as latent organizational threats and errors that may lie dormant in the system for months or even years).
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