How to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016

Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly recommended as a gripping case study whose lessons carry over to engineering management and safety.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

LeadDev

Topic

crew resource management

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• When the conference LeadDev happens in London, they often have Nickolas Means give a talk about an aeronautic topic. It’s usually 45 minutes of nail-biting in-depth analysis of a very complicated problem, and ends with a 5 minute rotation to how the lessons from that …

• The article does a poor job of explaining how truly incredibly the flight crew of United Airlines Flight 232 performed under crisis; I watched a talk[1] by Nickolas Means recently that goes deeper into the events of that day and the lessons learned. Wikipedia also …

• This list with no context is bordering on useless. Here are some channels i've watched and enjoyed: 1. interviewing.io - they do tech interviews with big5/6 tech co candidates and step through them: [LINK] 2. CS Dojo - ex-googler who steps through CS topics (data …