DO-178C helps to make flying safer

摘要

In a suspenseful scene from the 1976 movie "Marathon Man," a sadistic Nazi dentist (Sir Laurence Olivier) poses menacingly with his assorted instruments. Referring to a cache of stolen diamonds that he has come to collect, Olivier repeatedly asks his terrified captive (Dustin Hoffman), "Is it safe?" Hoffman has no idea what this means, but his ignorance is far from bliss as he suffers the unanesthetized consequences.