Famous Incidents Reading List
14 May 2019 - Thomas Depierre
This is a list of famous incidents i learned from. It also has various other sources i use to learn about them. There are also a lot of thing on how to learn from them.
As much as possible i will link to a direct legal download or link of the document. If a link is broken or you find a legal free access to one that does not have a source, you can tell me at my email
Last Updated : 13/05/2019
General thinking about incidents
This github repo hold a lot of links. Of these you can have a look at:
- The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’, Sidney Dekker
- The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, Diane Vaughan
- ‘Human error’: The handicap of human factors, safety and justice, Steven Shorrock
- Engineering a Safer World, Nancy Leveson
- The Systems Bible, Systemantics 3rd edition, John Gall
Software small incidents
I advise to follow sreweekly by Lex Neva for a weekly newsletter of various incidents and analysis and outage.
Chernobyl
- Producting Power, Sonja D. Schmid
Therac-25
- The Therac-25 Accidents, Nancy Leveson
Air Ontario
Ariane V maiden flight
Gimli Glider
No good source yet
Three Miles Island
No good source yet
Knight Capital Incident
The Damascus Incident
- Human Error in volatile situations, audio show with transcript
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser
Friendly Fire in northern Iraq
- Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq, Scott A. Snook