Thinking about Causes
There is yet no general theory, although there is developed
procedure, of how we ascertain causes in accident
investigations. The three papers
The X-31 and A320 Warsaw Crashes: Whodunnit?
by Peter Ladkin,
A Model for a Causal Logic for Requirements Engineering, by
Jonathan Moffett, Jon Hall, Andrew Coombes and
John McDermid, and
Reasons and Causes by Peter Ladkin
discuss the notions
of reasons and causes with respect to aviation accidents
as steps towards a general theory.
These papers use the A320 Warsaw accident as an example (the
references are repeated below).