The phrase "a chain of error" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a chain of errors." You can use it when discussing a series of mistakes or faults that are interconnected or lead to further issues.
Example: "The project failed due to a chain of errors that went unnoticed during the review process."
Alternatives: "a series of mistakes" or "a sequence of errors."
The emissions scandal "proves not to have been a one-time error, but rather a chain of errors that were allowed to happen", continues the report.
By then, communications between the two militaries had sorted out a chain of errors and the shooting had stopped.
A "chain of errors" is the unsatisfying conclusion so far, with blame pinned on weak processes, "misconduct and shortcomings", and some overly-tolerant "mindsets".
Through a chain of errors, the Strategic Command and Control system automatically dispatches a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers to destroy Moscow.
Investigators from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which brought the prosecution, found that a chain of errors led staff to override a safety warning when an empty test carriage got stuck on the track in strong winds.
By demonstrating that history is unpredictable, diaries such as his show that it is not inevitable: Ukraine's rapid degeneration from protest to bloodshed was the result of a chain of errors, which Mr Kurkov's entries chronicle.
Gen. Stephen Clark of the Air Force, described a chain of errors, delays and conflicting protocols between American and NATO troops that ultimately prevented the United States warplanes from identifying the Pakistanis as friendly forces until 24 were dead and 13 others were wounded.
In this paper the collapse of an industrial steel shed, under a 10 cm layer of fresh snow, is discussed showing that its collapse resulted from a chain of errors, in the design phase, during its assemblage and in the final inspection and control phase.
Ground controllers lost contact with the spacecraft early on 25 June, when a chain of errors threw it into a spin that left its solar panels unable to collect sunlight and generate power (ScienceNOW 26 June).
