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One of the television shows I love to watch is "Air Disasters" on Smithsonian.

The show goes into air incidents and the resulting investigation. The shows tend to fall into one of three broad categories: A fatal crash because of an issue beyond pilot control, a fata crash because of pilot error, or a recovered incident because the pilots were able to synthesize a solution on the fly. I imagine there is a fourth category, which is the pilots followed procedure and recovered from an incident, but I'm sure that one is ignored for the purposes of the show as it doesn't make for a compelling story. I'd say in those four categories of incident, they roughly boil down to: 1) the pilots never had a chance, 2) the pilots had a chance and blew it, 3) the pilots shouldn't have had a chance but made one anyway, and 4) the pilots had a chance and took it. What concerns me is that machines are not good at synthesizing solutions on the fly.