An educational institution learns about safety the hard way The 2001 crash of a twin-turboprop carrying the Oklahoma State University (OSU) basketball team illustrates how a potpourri of latent hazards can combine with deadly consequences. The object lesson for operations large and small is that latent hazards are like traps, and the goal is to disarm them before they can spring on the unwary, the complacent, or the inexperienced. The case involves the crash of a Beechcraft King Air 200…
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