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professionals. For as long as pilots insist on declaring that they think of checklists as the means of the
manufacturer to cast blame upon them, in case of an accident and international community fails
to root out the evil, we should expect more occasion where pilots will be the scapegoats and latent
failures will remain in dark.
On the other hand, there are signs that relative knowledge had been found far beyond in time, before
HELIOS accident occurred, but unfortunately till the time of the accident it had remained on the shelf.
TRIPOD methodology had been designed to draw the attention away from single failures of first line
personnel (pilots, engineers, ATC controllers, etc) and instead shed light on organisational issues,
which are the breeding mechanism for latent failures and far more complex issues to be dealt with.
Below are depicted the rest of the TRIPODS which are included into the investigation:
The Second TRIPOD
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