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Subject:Faulty checklists may have caused Swissair crash From:Candace Bamber <cbamber -at- CASTEK -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:33:53 -0400
Gang,
Just reading a Toronto Star story about the recent Swissair crash off
Peggy's Cove. Latest theory is that the checklist had incorrect
instructions on what to do about restoring power in an emergency.
I used to work in the oil patch, where there were many occasions where
someone's life could have depended on what I wrote.
