A Well written article and good advice for more than just our flying lives. Being a safety engineer for more than 40 years, I can recall many cases where accidents were the result of several of the things you covered. One of the worst industrial accidents in this country was caused by a maintenance crew that prided itself in performing a cleaning task on a large chemical reactor faster by taking shortcuts from the prescribed procedure, thus “saving” the company valuable production time. Then one day, they got a little too quick and the reactor dumped several tons of a highly flammable solvent on the ground. The result was a huge explosion and fire that killed more than 20 employees, destroyed $1.2 Billion dollars of property and caused another billion dollars in lost production. The sad thing was that the local managers were aware of the crew’s activities and did not put a stop to it. Who’s the real guilty party?