Very Close Separation Incident at Haneda

[Nank]

There is a lot more to "Safety" than just the behaviour of one group.
That is a reductionist view that is increasing seen to be the wrong way to appreciate how systems are safe or unsafe.

If you want to make a system safe, dont just look for where the failure occurred. Look at how the System contributed to that failure.

There are several books I would recommend
"Drift into Failure" and "Safety Differently" both by Sidney Dekker.

You’re correct in both replies, and good book recommendations too. We’ve been doing a fair amount of study on human factors and safety cultures at uni so it’ll be interesting to have a group discussion there about these incidents and what the implications are on a wider scale.

I think it partially comes back to the need for a review of air traffic management practices at major airports, and a firmer stance to limit non-standard flight paths and airwork around those airports to the middle of the night when there’s limited/no RPT traffic. As you say though, that idea relies on the government and regulators actually collaborating effectively with operators and the military etc., which rarely happens.
I suspect we could go a lot deeper with potential root causes higher up in the food chain but this would at least be a good place to start without multi-year enquiries, finger pointing and debates before anything changes.