Flown-it
i have to agree with zerozero. Your post is just looking for someone to blame. Sometimes things break and it's nobodys fault. The link to blame can be so tenuous that it's not reasonable to make the connection. For example, in this incident, can we blame the man in the smelting plant who made the gear brace for having the smelter set at 650 degress F instead of 660 degrees which caused the brace to fail, no, maybe we should blame the guy who put the oven together which was used!!! Eventually you will be pointing the finger at the bus driver taking the F/O to work for not smiling at her and putting her in the wrong frame of mind to do a walkaround!!!
Maybe there was something the F/O could have seen, but the reality is that a thousand other F/O's would have seen the same thing.....nothing (including me).