"rangerssuck" wrote in message
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On Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:55:12 PM UTC-4, Joe Gwinn wrote:

Well, the individual companies (for battery and for charger) no
doubt
satisfied their respective contracts. It's Boeing that should have
insisted of a full-up test, and it's the FAA that should also have
insisted that Boeing insist.

And had the FAA insisted, you can bet that SOMEONE certainly would
have complained about excess government regulation driving up the
costs. But yes, this testing should have been done, regulation or no
regulation.

Exhausive regulations protect those who permit a failure while
following them, but not those who step outside them to catch an
embarrassing oversight.

Here is a well-documented example:
http://www.ww2pacific.com/torpedo.html
To compound the problem the commander of US subs in Australia
(ComSubSWPac) had been one of the torpedo's developers and refused to
listen to complaints.
jsw