Re: The Lessons of ValuJet 592

["Hutchings, Christa" <cwhutchings -at- HOMEWIRELESS -dot- COM>]

Was it really fictitious? Wow, I hope so - I've always thought it was a
pretty tragic situation.

However, I didn't get the sense when I was reading it that it was
fictitious. And I believe I saw it in a school newsletter - perhaps
someone had "lifted" it from the STC journal and left out the
"fictitious" introduction (?)

Well, even if it was fictitious, it still makes me a little wary of
putting my name in a manual. If someone wants to try to sue me because
of a product manual I was involved with, I want them to jump through
hoops to find out who I am.

Chris Welch-Hutchings
Sr. Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc.
Norcross GA (USA)
mailto:cwhutchings -at- homewireless -dot- com


-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Boyington [mailto:tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 12:30 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: The Lessons of ValuJet 592


Hutchings, Christa wrote:

> Absolutely! This all reminds me of something I read several years ago
> about an Indian computer company  that basically went belly-up due to
a
> wrongful death lawsuit "attributed to documentation."

IIRC, this was a fictitious situation (and a fictitious company) used
for an ethics discussion in the STC journal.

Tracy
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