It is perhaps sad, but I'm heartened by this letter. I had heard that warnings were given in advance, but this is clear (in fact, I find the "catastrophe of th

It is perhaps sad, but I'm heartened by this letter. I had heard that warnings were given in advance, but this is clear (in fact, I find the "catastrophe of the highest order" language to be less impressive than the clear and defined "loss of human life"). Why am I heartened to see that someone foresaw a lethal accident and was ignored? Because it was foreseen, and the consequences understood, with clarity. Getting people to take clear warnings seriously seems a more easily solved problem than getting us to be able to recognize the danger in the first place. A single person in management, or a few people, being dense is fixable. Groupthink where everyone assumes someone else is checking for problems and no one does is harder to fix. Now, just because it's an easier problem doesn't make it an EASY problem, but still, easier.