The Floor
Would you have grounded the fleet on the evidence that officer had?
The same evidence, none of the hindsight, and no seat to sit in this time.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that a decision is judged on what was known at the time.
Runs while the room is still moving
1,042 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Two of eleven aircraft showed the same faultGround them
- Grounding strands the island's only hospital transferKeep flying
- The inspection would have taken nine days
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Farida Z.@farida_z· 8 Sept
Two of eleven is not a pattern you get to wait out. The nine-day inspection is the cost of finding out, and it is cheap against the alternative.
Stuart M.@stuart_m· 9 Sept
Grounding the fleet means the hospital transfer stops. That is not an abstraction, it is a named risk to named people, and it lands on day one.
Lena W.@lena_w· 10 Sept
He did not have two of eleven at the time. He had two, and no denominator. That is a different decision from the one we are all judging.
