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I'll state it another way: If you were an airline, would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed and nearly killed hu

I'll state it another way: If you were an airline, would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed and nearly killed hundreds of people? If you were a patient, would you knowingly accept surgery from a doctor who had a documented record of making fatal mistakes in surgeries? Once this man's name is released, he will be unhireable.

krisoft 3y ago
> Once this man's name is released There are multiple unfounded assumptions here. Just because boeing tells the investigators the name of the individual the name does not “get released”. NTSB reports most of the time describe people in general terms such as “the captain of the accident flight” or “maintainer 2”. Then the assumption is that it is a single individual, when it is most likely multiple people. (There were multiple aircrafts found with the missing screws.) Then of course you are also assuming a gender. Not everyone who works on airplanes is a male you know. > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mistakes.
- olliej 3y ago
  > > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed > Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mistakes. And in fact that's the whole point of these interviews. A safety system that fails if a single person makes a mistake indicates a failure of the safety system, not the individual that actually made the mistake. The design of the system is meant to be such that even if one of there was a mechanic that was trying to intentionally sabotage the maintenance it would not result in a safety issue.

krisoft 3y ago

> Once this man's name is released There are multiple unfounded assumptions here. Just because boeing tells the investigators the name of the individual the name does not “get released”. NTSB reports most of the time describe people in general terms such as “the captain of the accident flight” or “maintainer 2”. Then the assumption is that it is a single individual, when it is most likely multiple people. (There were multiple aircrafts found with the missing screws.) Then of course you are also assuming a gender. Not everyone who works on airplanes is a male you know. > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mistakes.

olliej 3y ago
> > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed > Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mistakes. And in fact that's the whole point of these interviews. A safety system that fails if a single person makes a mistake indicates a failure of the safety system, not the individual that actually made the mistake. The design of the system is meant to be such that even if one of there was a mechanic that was trying to intentionally sabotage the maintenance it would not result in a safety issue.