Einstein said that “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” is the definition of insanity.
IF, indeed, the “looky-loos” that dote upon the schadenfreude of reading about the accidents of others REALLY turned into the “learning experience” they profess to experience, there would BE A LARGE DECLINE in the number of accidents.
Despite claims to the contrary, the reality is that pilots keep making the same old mistakes over and over–Dating all the way back to September 17, 1908–when Orville Wright crashed and killed Lt. Selfridge in the first fatal airplane crash.
Aircraft have been crashing for all this time–and most of the causes have been repeated time and time again. So much for the “learning experience.”