Small mistakes can often lead to larger failures or consequences as described in the saying. For example, a pilot's small mistake of missing important checklist items before takeoff resulted in an airplane crash that killed everyone on board due to the ensuing systems failure. While small errors may seem insignificant, they can sometimes snowball into much worse outcomes, as shown in this real-world tragedy.

1. Small mistakes are the steppingstones to large failures. How
might this saying apply to this lesson, and do you agree?
In your responses, provide an example of a real-life seemingly
small mistake with large consequences. By real-life, I mean a
situation that actually happened, not a theoretical one.