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You must be shitting me no?... if not, good luck bro!! heheheh  |
I wish I was!!!
Dan Applegate was a senior engineer with Convair, subcontractors for the design and building of the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 aircraft. In 1972, Applegate voiced his concerns to management about potential design faults in the aircraft’s cargo doors. In his view, the aircraft’s cargo doors could potentially open mid-flight. Should this occur, there would be instantaneous depressurisation of the cargo area. It follows that the passenger cabin, which lay just above, would buckle under the pressure. He believed that if this were to happen, the plane’s essential control lines would be cut and the pilot’s control of the aircraft lost. A potentially fatal crash would seem immanent. Management however, believed that his proposed changes would be too costly to implement and so the necessary changes were never made. Applegate never “blew the whistle” and in 1974, a DC10 aircraft crashed on the outskirts of Paris, killing all 346 people onboard. It was later ascertained that the crash was due to the same technical fault Applegate had foreseen two years prior to that tragic day. (Grace 1998:148)
This essay will examine the ethical issues faced by workers just like Dan Applegate – employees who are placed in a position in which the knowledge of illegal or unethical company activity becomes known to them. Firstly it will examine the definition of whistle blowing...
Get the picture? I really need to reword that. It doesn't flow well.
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"To that guy, who asked me to sign this piece of paper saying that I’m number one… thumbs up to you man!!!" - Ferry Corsten
Last edited by DJ Dowlz on Oct-04-2002 at 09:52
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Simply braindead.
