brainwashed

Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt (hleimann_at_houseware.com.ar)
Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:58:44 -0300

Hi Folks,
as a non english speaker, I found in the Longman dictionary that brainwashing
is "to cause (someone) to change their beliefs and ideas, by a system of
forceful continuous persuading".
Well, obviously this definition doesn't apply at all to CRM.
But, we, facilitators and developers yes are "brainwashed".
If everyone of us look at his own history, will find out that was forceful
persuaded to change his/her original ideas and beliefs, methods and criteria
he/she had about CRM.
I'm very thankfull to this forum for having "brainwashed" and renewed my
ideas and believes on how to be more effective in our enterprise.

CRM in this latitude is, at this moment, nothing less than an "Operational
Phylosophy".
We have trying hardly to introduce managers into this OP and finnaly we
succeded. Now our challenge are the owners of the money. CEOs are reluctant,
and we don't have many arguments to convince them.
In our last meeting I exposed the legal consequences the security manager of
Air-Inter suffered after its A-320 crashed near Strasburg 1992 (negligent
homicide for not have installed GPWS in the planes). (see quote bellow)
Now I'm looking for new episodes. Perhaps ValueJet, or Air Ontario (after
Dryden) etc.
Please, if any of you have some data to quote aboute legal consequences to
managers for negligent behavior, please mail me.

Thanks a lot for brainwashing me in this interactive forum.
Greeting from B.A.
Hugo


Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt, MD, PhD
Argentine Aviation Authority and Air Force CRM Developer
Tronador 1515
(1430) Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel/Fax (541)552-4266
http://www.houseware.com.ar/users/hf_crm

PS:
from Kurt Brimingham suggestion, I checked
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13/index.html)
and found the following:

>From the International Herald Tribune, 19 Jan 1993

Paris Charges Ex-Official in Air Crash

COLMAR, France (AP) - A former official of the French domestic airline
Air-Inter was charged Monday with negligent homicide in the crash of a
passenger jet a year ago that killed 87 people. Jacques Rantet, Air-Inter's
former director of flight security, was charged ... with negligence leading
to death and injury in the crash of the Airbus A320. Nine people survived
after the airliner crashed into a mountainside as it approached Strasbourg
airport on Jan. 20, 1992.