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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Jack D. Gillum would later reflect that the design flaw was so obvious that "any first-year engineering student could figure it out," if only it had been checked

Any respectable engineering firm now has a quality control process where a completely different engineer from the designer of record reviews final plans or any major change orders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Peer review is standard in IT changes and ours can’t even (normally) cause mortal injuries