Interesting Reading

I enjoy going to the US military safety websites and reading the annual
mishap report review.
They describe the different classes of mishap (severity) and list the
associated costs of each mishap (your tax dollars at work!).
Remember the B-1B that went down off Diego Garcia?
It resulted from an engine shutdown after takeoff; which lead to the
loss of the first generator; followed by the loss of the second
generator; followed by the loss of the backup system.
Get this... the DSO and OSO (guys in back), based on the instruments at
their stations, told the pilots the aircraft was out of control and
punched out. Shortly thereafter, the pilot concluded that the aircraft
was indeed out of control and followed the non-flying personal out of
the aircraft.
The accident board listed, among the reasons for the loss of the
aircraft, "contributing design deficiencies".
BTW, the cost of the loss... $298,000,000.