On 17 January 2017 at 18:33, Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's covered in the book to a degree, I haven't seen the film and I
don't know if it's covered there, but this is really an accident that
shouldn't have happened. The crew knowingly and intentionally used
the wrong tool. Even if it had happened, it didn't have to be as bad
as it was - except the deluge system meant to mitigate exactly such an
accident was not fully operational. Poor training, poor supervision,
poor procedural discipline, poor materiel condition, and you're
screwed every time. It's not if, it's when.
