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 Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: Report no. 2 from Sun n Fun - The Heintz clan reactions |
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Hi Ron,
I didn't see any inconsistency or contradiction in the NTSB report.
I have heard many comments about the board ruling being inconsistent
with investigation reports on some points. This may seem like a
contradiction because the investigators are called NTSB and the board
has the same letters. It is my understanding that the same 4 letters
refer to both the 3 person (?) board and the large organization of
workers in that agency. When I see an NTSB investigation report I
consider that the output of a relatively low level worker in the
organization. When I see a ruling letter like the one released last
week I consider that the "Decision" of the board that is actually the
3 very high level "Commissioners" that are the actual NTS Board. So
if this is the kind of inconsistency you refer to than I think it can
be written off to language clarity issues rather than reasoning issues.
I am happy to admit that federal and other government bureaucracy and
its associated language issues are not clear to anyone who hasn't
really been in the middle of it for a long time. I spent 8 years on
active duty in the USAF where these same sort of issues were daily
problems. I don't claim expertise in understanding the bureaucrats,
but I do have some experience with the language.
Paul
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At 06:03 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
| Quote: | Paul,
I think one of the issues here is that the NTSB report appears to be
internally inconsistent. Regardless of their political or other
authority, this undermines their credibility, at least in regards to
this specific issue. In particular, any engineer examining the issue
is going to pick up on this immediately and discount such flawed
logic. Regardless of the correctness of their conclusions (and I make
no effort to support or dispute them) they just plain blew this report.
Now, you may respect the organization enough to accept their
conclusions regardless of the logic. Personally, I was very
disappointed in the sloppiness of this work and I'm very glad other
organizations/people are looking at this problem and are not relaying
on such a flawed report to make life and death engineering changes.
I'm sure Zen* could design a perfectly adequate mass balancer in a
matter of days. It's not so clear that it would actually solve
anything other quieting some critics.
Ron
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