perception
irregardless of what the failure was and whether the crew was right, I can see that this BA incident sensationlised in the media, along with the BA 3 engine from LAX also sensationalised in the media, could create a perception that BA suffer's from an acute case of push-on-itis and this may be "cowboy" behaviour.
I'm not saying this is true, and these are the facts and so on, but I am saying if I was a bigwig at BA I wouldn't want a few more of these engineering decisions to get out and fuel the fire. So I'd issue a note to engineering etc suggesting they veer a bit more back towards caution and return to base and so forth.
Not because it's technically justified, but because there's no need for bad publicity one after another. Once Joe Public's mind is set one way it would take years of non-news to eliminate the perception.
Simon
Last edited by groundbum; 27th Nov 2005 at 11:35.