Original Post by Commander Taco
Your collective attitude is reminiscent of the Challenger Disaster - IE: "We don't know enough about the behaviour of the O-rings in subzero weather but nothing has ever happened before so let's launch anyway". We all know how that turned out and the resulting investigation led Professor Diane Vaughan to say:
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"Social normalization of deviance means that people within the organization become so much accustomed to a deviant behavior that they don't consider it as deviant, despite the fact that they far exceed their own rules for the elementary safety"
Once again, if you really believe what you posted here, you wouldn't have had a 41 year flying career. One sentence out of Diane's book isn't even the whole story as to what happened and why. Your personal IE in quotes is wrong. Re-read the rest of the book, again. I can assure you that isn't the way things are in either the aircraft engine or major aircraft businesses. It seems to me you have an axe to grind for whatever reason in the industry you were a part of for years...