Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Metricyard
I'm amazed that the landing gear could ake that kind of force. That's a pat on the back for the engineers who designed that landing gear. Of course he/she'll probably be fired for designing the landing gear.
|
If the landing gear had been manufactured in accordance with Six Sigma and/or Lean, it would have collapsed the second it experienced any unusual stresses that weren't part of the conventional landing profile specification. Any safety factors to account such out-of-spec performance issues would have been eliminated by the Black Belts and bean counters during the design phase in order to minimize cost and maximize profits.
If properly investigated, I'm sure it'll be a pink slip for the engineer(s) who wasted such valuable resources and potentially had a negative effect on company profits.
Meanwhile, congrats to the crew for a successful landing, the flight controllers who brought them in safely to the best runway available for this situation, and the emergency response personnel who were ready just in case.
