The Columbia investigation focused on the wrong part of the wing: the engineers were analysing tiles when the damage was to the leading edge.

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• The Challenger accident was caused by managers who suppressed engineers' safety concerns for venal reasons. WHWayne Hale31 Jan 2013
• A technical leader should let engineers find the flaw in their own design through leading questions rather than announce it, because a discovered flaw is acted on and a reported one is argued with. TPThuan Pham1 Apr 2026
• A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work. GKGary Klein9 Aug 2022
• A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence. ACAjeya Cotra1 Sept 2026
• Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it. BFBrad Feld19 Jun 2026

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