Originally Posted by rickair7777
I still feel that UPS managers had reasonable priorities dealing with the crash and SDF on day one. For all they knew it was geese, etc. Yes, I know the culture well, my best friend has worked for UPS for decades.
If it was three days, yeah that's pushing it. I'd give them one day to pick up the pieces and then they should have had the right people looking at the video and making the right call on day two.
Geese don't generally cause the #1 engine/cowl/pylon to depart the airframe and be laying on the right side of the departure runway as evidenced by photos on Twitter and Instagram within an hour of the accident.
Yeah they were "exceptionally busy", as the Airline President said in a news conference as to why it took two weeks to hear from him...but it was almost 77 hours between the plane going in and the announced grounding of the fleet. When the airline itself had high-definition video of the takeoff sequence, as evidenced by UPS being the source of those six photos in the NTSB prelim.
I'm not saying they should have done anything Tuesday evening in the immediate aftermath while fires were still burning...but Wednesday? Thursday? Or anytime Friday prior to the 2DA sort departed SDF and Boeing strongly recommending to MD11 operators that they be grounded?
I'm not somebody that generally goes around bashing management for sport, or second-guessing decisions made with limited information in the middle of a crisis...but "abundance of caution" has lost all meaning in this specific context.