RE: Consequences of not following the procedures...

Subject: RE: Consequences of not following the procedures...
From: "Downing, David" <david -dot- downing -at- fiserv -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:52:02 -0600

Sounds like part of this new situation was not an emergency decision
either. It involved some maintenance that should have been done and was
deliberately put off.

David Downing
Senior Technical Writer
Credit Union Solutions
Fiserv



-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:12 PM
To: Downing, David; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Consequences of not following the procedures...

Challenger holds the still-undisputed first place on my list of
aircraft/aerospace negligence cases. The decisions that led to it were
not
emergency decisions that had to be made quickly and on-the-fly; a bunch
of
manager had hours sitting around a conference room to make up their
minds;
engineers argued strongly that the launch should be postponed until
conditions
were better and the vehicle checked for ice and cold damage but their
views were
disregarded; and most importantly, the flight commander and crew were
never
brought into the decision or even advised that there was a decision to
be made.
IMO, it was a disgrace that nobody went to prison for it.

(I was an aerospace design/test engineer at the time, does it show in my

opinion?)

This case may end up somewhere close on my list after all the reports
have been
made available for review. Don't know yet.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Downing, David" <david -dot- downing -at- fiserv -dot- com>
How can people get that careless when life and death matters are
involved? It
was the same with the Challenger disaster, was it not?

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References:
Re: Consequences of not following the procedures...: From: Downing, David
Re: Consequences of not following the procedures...: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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