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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 18:36:15 EST
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> 
> The lack of that press conference cost the Challenger crew their lives.
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

*** LACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR RHETORIC ***

I would buy yelling at those engineers if I had some evidence that
a management overturned engineering advisory was a rare event.

The fact is that little discussions and negotiations between engineers
and managers go on every day.  The manager's *job* is to know what to
say yes and no to.

Was the O-ring problem something that stuck out like a sore thumb
beforehand, as a source of major disagreement?  I suspect instead that
it was just one of hundreds of possible problems brought up and deemed
not serious enough.  In this case, they were wrong, and everybody pays.

To suggest that every engineer overruled by his or her boss go to the
press is ludicrous.  This should only be done if the engineer knows the
manager's decision is based on something illegal, like fraud.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473