Originally Posted by
BEagle
Asking staff to remain schtum in these events is standard industry practice. It's generally done for legal reasons. If someone names a piece of kit as the culprit and the subsequent enquiry reveals, for example, that it failed because it was being asked to operate outside its documented operational limits, then you will be in receipt of letters from Messrs Sue, Grabbit, and Runne pronto.
As is being indicated, there may be huge sums of money at the core of this.
Remember in this, that it seems to have happened at a time of very heavy use.