Critical thinking on Air Crash Investigation

Rizal Philippines  | June 30 2014

I watched the Air Crash Investigation on Otter twin prop on service at Haiti minutes after take off. The KT approach still applies here.

It is a case where the critical thinking applies.

An Otter twin prop  plane dived after take off.  All of the 19 passengers and crew died.

They had several hypothesis as to why the plane crashed:

1.  weight and balancing
2.  engine failure
3.  failure of flaps to retract.

After sometime they hypothesized,  after seeing the plane control cables which abnormally snapped (the others snapped because of the crash) that this was due to cable failure:

Some observation:

1.  The cables wore out due to frequent take off landing especially for the elevators;

2.   The particular Otter plane did quite a number of take off landing;

3.  This Otter used stainless cable which wore out quickly vs carbon steel cables.

4.  The Otter were parked near jet planes and were exposed to jet blast because the jet barrier blast were removed.  The elevators were in land position further enhancing the wear and tear of cables.

The results:

Because of this tragedy, certain safety standards were promulgated

1.  Stricter standards for cable maintenance.

2.  Restoration of the jet blast barrier between prop commuter planes and jet planes

On Case Analysis

 


Please be guided by this post

Please read the portion on critical thinking of this slideshare presentation:

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Prof Jorge Saguinsin

PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURALISM

Are your school's MBA students worthy of being called Master/Gurus?

In one of the entrep talks, I was asked that question.  I remember it was duirng an MBAH entrep class entrep guest presentation and the guest who is from UP, an MBA (he was a milk company comptroller, and he did a lot of asset swaps, back to back leasing when the financial crisis stuck). shocked me with the question "Are your students now, worthy of being called Masters/Gurus?  During our time, our training made so good in business and strategic thinking"

I was shocked and frankly I did not know the answer.  I did not know what kind of stuff my fellow professors were teaching the MBA students, and whether there were assessments made to that effect.

Do we have gurus and Masters in our midst? Really?

Judging from some of the Strama defenses I attended, and from some of the BP submitted to me, and during case analyses which I did after that question was raised, and from the forum on the net on which is the best MBA school?,  I hate that I was asked that question.

     l.  Many lack critical thinking;

     2.  In the area of Personal Mastery (just coming to school on time and regularly;  submitting all the assignments)

     3.  Many fare badly in case analysis

     4. Many lack the rigor of use of research data and facts.  Some think that my subject does not have rigor.

In our search for being the biggest, we neglected quality.  However I admire the male strama professors who make sure that the school MBA imprint is deserved by those who wear it. I joined the ranks of faculty who were more rigorous and even flunked those who did not deserve to be called MBA.  (Now many of them are now forgotten and me included are at the backdoor)

I would have to do a lot more work (with our colleagues, to answer yes to that question.