Crashers
“The NTSB is one of the smallest bureaucracies in Washington, with fewer than six hundred employees in all. The only way to handle a major crash investigation was to bring in experts from the very manufacturers they were investigating. It was an uncomfortable partnership, the ultimate example of strange bedfellows, but it had worked like that since the 1960s.
Peter Kim was a gifted engineer and his crew was highly trained. But when it came to studying the Vermeer 111, they’d need the experts fro...m Vermeer Aircraft itself to help them take apart the wings. And they’d need a crew from Patterson-Pate Electric to tear apart the four cowls on each of the four engines, which covered the intake, fan, core, and exhaust systems. Likewise, the hydraulic actuators, cascade segments, and sleeves of the engine were highly complicated pieces of technology, and only teams from the manufacturer could hope to truly understand it all. Some parts could fail if they malfunctioned by as little as two millimeters.MoreLess
Peter Kim was a gifted engineer and his crew was highly trained. But when it came to studying the Vermeer 111, they’d need the experts fro...m Vermeer Aircraft itself to help them take apart the wings. And they’d need a crew from Patterson-Pate Electric to tear apart the four cowls on each of the four engines, which covered the intake, fan, core, and exhaust systems. Likewise, the hydraulic actuators, cascade segments, and sleeves of the engine were highly complicated pieces of technology, and only teams from the manufacturer could hope to truly understand it all. Some parts could fail if they malfunctioned by as little as two millimeters.MoreLess
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