From order to chaos in a few seconds 26 Apr 2021 Butterfly effect: Routine systems of maintenance, flight management and training all descended from order into chaos through seemingly inconsequential and unconnected decisions and events, resulting in the crash of Concorde Flight 4590 in 2000. There were no survivors. Photo: Eric Bouvet/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Many a crisis has its origins in a series of seemingly unconnected events, a phenomenon known as “the butterfly effect”. Who would have thought that events in Wuhan, China (laboratory or wet market — take your pick), would result ...