Heathrow Shutdown durch das Problem vor sieben Jahren gefunden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly22eelnxjo
Von CaseyEffingRyback
Heathrow Shutdown durch das Problem vor sieben Jahren gefunden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly22eelnxjo
Von CaseyEffingRyback
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„Well we could have fixed it, but that would cost money and the shareholders dividend might have suffered“.
I knew it was the ~~Russians~~ ~~Iranians~~ ~~French~~. Even when it was the feckless management, I knew it was them.
Another inevitable outcome of spreadsheet management.
We need to change how we incentivise and monitor our management class. Right now the only incentives that they have are budget targets and arbitrary kpi’s and they all look like sticks with no carrot.
Typical short term thinking in business to save a few quid. We have a real lack of long-term thinking and decision making in the U.K. in both a business sense and, more evidently, in the public sector.
“hmmm… should we fix this potentially catastrophic problem or buy more yachts?” – the CEO
I work in QA/QC. This is pretty much SOP for any company. If it’s not immediately hurting the bottom line, sweep it under the rug.
I thought this was hybrid warfare? A lot of newspapers started speculating on Russian origins.
*“But in the absence of information immediately after the fire, Britain’s raucous tabloids were ablaze with speculation about Russian sabotage: “****If Russia was behind Heathrow fire, is that an act of war?” The Telegraph wondered in an op-ed headline.*** *British radio presenter Nick Ferrari asked listeners jokingly whether anyone had seen* [*Russian President Vladimir Putin*](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-putin-jfk-files-ukraine-israel-gaza-doge-live-updates-rcna196779)*.*
*On social media, users pointed to patterns of sabotage by Russia, while others argued the fire was part of a broader strategy of hybrid warfare.“*
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/heathrow-fire-russia-sabotage-suspicions-rcna197597](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/heathrow-fire-russia-sabotage-suspicions-rcna197597)
Same reason why bridges collapse, cable cars fall to the ground, trains derail, rivers flood, etc.
Preventative maintenance is expensive so why do it?
All hail the true God: capitalism.
FFS is there a single national infrastructure that we can actually be proud of and isn’t held together with sticking plaster and gum?
The lawyers for the airlines and airport’s insurers who suffered a £100m loss are now going to be circling on National Grid, as there is a big difference between the sudden failure of a component where there was no indication of issues, and the potential negligence of knowing that a component was likely to fail and then taking no steps to fix it over the next seven years.
Ironic how rabid some people in here were saying that it could ONLY be russians that did it.
Reading the title I’d assumed that although it was detected that it was deemed not a priority. Lots of things are like that. However reading the article it’s quite clear that the work should have been done. I wonder what the reasoning behind the 2022 deferment was.
> It said „elevated“ moisture had been detected in July 2018 and that under National Grid’s guidance, such readings indicate „an imminent fault and that the bushing should be replaced“.
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> But it said the issue went „unaddressed“ and an „basic maintenance“ to fix the problem in 2022 was deferred.
Moisture in one part of one substation is not the issue… Nor is a fire in a substation – that happens from time to time.
The issue is that various systems were not designed with redundancy in mind.
In the tech world, we manually power off/deliberately break components to verify the whole system still functions correctly even if parts break suddenly. Maybe the national grid should be doing this?
If heathrow airport has 3 power feeds, perhaps they should randomly switch one off on a tuesday afternoon and check the airport can still function?