Checklist Day
October 30
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every year that begins at 00:00 on day 30 of October, repeating indefinitely
| When: October 30 |
Where: Everywhere |
First occurrence: .?. |
| 📋 This is a good day to work on making checklists to make sure you do not forget anything that is essential to include in whatever it is that you are doing |
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| ✔️ Checklist Day remembers a day when a good and complete checklist would have prevented a disaster. In 1935 on October 30 Boeing introduced their new model that would revolutionize U.S. military. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress had been in intensive development for 5 years. Great efforts were made to use well researched and hyper modern technology. A great show was planned to introduce this price model that would supposedly change everything. Everything was going to be perfect.Everything was perfect. Except that after take off the crew forgot to disengage the gust locks. With the gust locks still active, the action of increasing altitude had an opposite result of going down in a nosedive. The crash killed both the pilot and the test pilot.Later on the B-17 Flying Fortress would still get into production and was used as a war plane during WW II. But the first impression was an epic fail so they missed a multi-million contract …and the lives of two crew members. Had the anyone in the test process made a good |
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| #ChecklistDay #ChecklistsDay |
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Details
- Date:
- October 30
- Event Category:
- Awareness
- Event Tags:
- awareness, living, October
- https://wildcalendar.com/events/checklist-day/
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