This article has a great summary of the Air Transat flight 236 that glided 121 kilometers before emergency landing on an Azorean island. The chain leading up to the total fuel loss included different incompatible components, missing QA, framing bias. The FAA’s Lessons Learned entry adds details any IT person will recognise: the lead technician could not open the service bulletin because of a computer malfunction, the engine change was behind schedule, and the quality control check of the paperwork had not happened yet when the aircraft flew again. In aviation these post-mortem analyses are shared and provide a benefit for the whole industry as well as the passenger. For software and information technology, such transparency and plain technical analysis would presumably also be of great benefit.
The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) could be an early example.