When Interfaces Kill: What Really Happened to John Denver

Einstein wrote something along the lines of: "The physically real in the universe of events (in contrast to that which is dependent upon the choice of a reference system) consists in spatiotemporal coincidences."

Everything is a "coincidence", and it seems to me that any coincidence involves an interface, so I conclude that interfaces being sources of lethality is sort of tautological...

But anyway, I used to own Tog On Software Design, seemed like a good book.

Some of the writing here seems sloppy - "The aviation community, on the contrary, from the beginning made safety their primary goal" - well, no, this very article is about general aviation which is not that safe, and commercial aviation wasn't so safe at the beginning...but I figure he knows that.