[XBob]

1587 - "Don't laugh XBob.

TPS did it's job. Why are you and Jamieson so interested in embarassing the Rockwell/Boeing TPS guys? "

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The TPS obviously failed, or else we wouldn't be having this discussion.

We are trying to figure out why.

As I told you before, I am an OIL man, not a NASA/CONTRACTOR man. I am not trying to blame anyone, by company or system, just find the cause.

This attitude is why I was so glad to get back to OIL, as the culture of 'blame' is rampant in the space program.

I was also trained in accident/loss investigation, to find the real original cause, and contributing causes.

And personally, I see numbers of unnecessarily risky structural design flaws, old ones, 30 years old even, as contributing/compounding the accident.

[Thud]

There is nothing like having one side's engineering expert blast every attorney in the courtroom for misuse of engineering terms while the judge sits there and grins.

"I was also trained in accident/loss investigation, to find the real original cause, and contributing causes."