Re: What safety lesson we may learn from Concord crash?

2000-08-02 Thread georgea
Rich, As an addendum to your analysis of product safety standards, I am sure you have heard: Success comes from experience. Experience comes from failure. Most people who rose to great heights in their field sufferred major failures along the way. I have read that Michael Jordan did not make

Re: What safety lesson we may learn from Concord crash?

2000-08-01 Thread Rich Nute
What safety lesson we may learn from Concord crash? There are lot of Safety standards in Electronic and Electrical industries. If we strictly follow them we can avoid fatal accidents. True. Because, the standards specify safeguards for KNOWN failures that lead to injury. Is

Re: What safety lesson we may learn from Concord crash?

2000-08-01 Thread ooverton
The question was Do we really have to pay so high price to learn the lesson? My response is in two parts. The first one is, as I assume you believe since you ask the question in the context you did, no -- not really. The second one is yes, look at history. I was in the US Air Force for 23 year,