I'm Not a Risk Manager, I'm a Risk Ecologist

by Robert N. Charette

This past week, a number of intersecting risk-rich related news stories caught my eye. First, there was the ongoing investigation into the loss of Air France Flight 447 and its 228 passengers and crew. There is increasing suspicion that the plane was brought down by a combined problem involving "failure" of its in-flight computer system, which caused the crew to take maneuvers that could not be handled by the composite materials used to build the Airbus 330 aircraft.