Spilled drink causes A350 engine shutdown
02-01-2020 | 07:08 AM
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From: Widget Jet
Like I said. Not how it went down. Not even close. Just zip it.
02-01-2020 | 07:33 AM
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It can be hard to get people to report mistakes when the company fires them. It seems they should make a policy if it was that big of a deal.
02-01-2020 | 07:43 AM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
I flew another plane that had this sort of issue in the past. It was well known, and it kept happening anyway (cockpit was a bit cramped).
02-01-2020 | 03:08 PM
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02-01-2020 | 07:36 PM
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From: The Beginnings
Good reminder from The late Michael Crichton on the “Gell-Mann Effect”, and why to be highly skeptical of all reporting:
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
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