Yep, this has led to plane crashes before. Alarms that are going off when they aren’t important get silenced, and then aren’t audible when they ARE important.
The investigators had spoken with other MD-80 pilots, and learned that many pilots found it a nuisance to hear a take-off configuration warning (“Slats … Slats… Slats…”) while they were simply taxiing. It was so common for pilots to pull the P-40 circuit breaker that the area around the circuit breaker was smudged from routinely being manipulated.This circuit breaker also controls some of the stall warning sounds. This coincided with the missing sounds from the CVR of the incident flight.