La primera parte de esta serie expuso los hallazgos sobre comunicaciones del atentado de 1993 que ya estaban documentados y aceptados antes de 2001. Esta parte aborda la pregunta más estrecha y más difícil de qué establecen realmente las investigaciones publicadas sobre el desempeño de las... [...]
Hospitals across the New York region spent the morning of September 11, 2001 preparing for a casualty load that mostly did not arrive. Emergency departments near the World Trade Center took a rush of ambulatory patients in the first two or three hours and then saw the flow stop, because [...]
Cada revisión importante de un incidente multiagencial después de la acción (after-action review) en los Estados Unidos desde la década de 1970 ha dicho alguna versión de lo mismo sobre la interoperabilidad de radio, y las recomendaciones han sido adoptadas, financiadas, y luego encontradas... [...]
Every major multi-agency incident review in the United States since the 1970s has said some version of the same thing about radio interoperability, and the recommendations have been adopted, funded, and then found missing again at the next incident. Even though the technology improved across... [...]
El 13 de abril de 1970, alrededor de cincuenta y cinco horas y cincuenta y cinco minutos después del inicio del tercer intento estadounidense de alunizaje, un tanque de oxígeno en el módulo de servicio del Apolo 13 falló y el vuelo se convirtió en un rescate. Lo que registra [...]
On the evening of Saturday 31 July 1976, thunderstorms stalled over the upper Big Thompson drainage in the Colorado Front Range and put something close to a foot of rain in about four hours into a narrow canyon that had US Highway 34 and a river at the bottom of [...]
En la noche del sábado 31 de julio de 1976, las tormentas eléctricas quedaron estancadas sobre la cuenca alta del río Big Thompson, en el Front Range de Colorado, y depositaron algo cercano a treinta centímetros de lluvia en unas cuatro horas sobre un cañón estrecho que tenía en su [...]
On 13 April 1970, about fifty-five hours and fifty-five minutes into the third American lunar landing attempt, an oxygen tank in the service module of Apollo 13 failed and the flight became a rescue. What the air-to-ground tape records from that point is not panic but procedure, because NASA had... [...]
Most exercises I have sat through were built to be survived rather than to teach anybody anything, and the tell is always the same: the scenario was written after somebody picked the date, the objectives were written after the scenario, and the after action report listed communications as a... [...]
On the evening of October 8, 1871, fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin and the farm settlements around it, killing more people than any other fire in American history. The same night, and driven by the same weather, Chicago burned. Chicago got the correspondents, the relief money, the... [...]
