Originally Posted by
procede
That is the theory. In reality is is much easier to make a decision if you can point to a consultancy report (that is not publicly available) where you took some parts completely out of context. I have seen that way too often.
Technical consultants are a different issue, where often retention of knowlegde is an issue. In theory everything has been documented, in reality hardly anyone is able to go through the documentation, if they can still find it after a few years...
Didn't Boeing have some junior employee responsible for quality control with no actual power to take any action?
If there was a period in Boeing’s history when QC had no authority, I’m somewhat unnerved by the thought that anything that they built in this period is allowed to fly.