ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Air safety uses a learning model that is showing signs of exhaustion. A learning model centered on the development of technology and regulations is not able to evolve at the same rate as the resources on which it depends. This is due to the secondary effects of the learning model put forward in the previous chapters. Commercial aviation has fundamentally learned to be safer through technological resources and regulations. In doing so, it has increased its complexity, resulting in large numbers of people who work in aviation not understanding its internal operation. The problems derived from this inconvenience have been partially avoided via the introduction of new, more powerful technology that allows the management of a larger number of events at the cost of increasing complexity even further.