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Old 23rd Oct 2009, 20:44
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Sunfish
 
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Think back to the Challenger Disaster and Richard Feynemans appendix to the report.

Management makes the false assumption that just because a LAME has never "saved a VB aircraft from disaster" by finding a lethal defect on a morning walk around, that this is never going to happen.

Unfortunately statistics, as Feyneman famously pointed out, always win in the end.

99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time a LAME check is a needless luxury.

Just pray you are not on the aircraft on the one time that it isn't.
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