Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You work with Brazilian authorities from home soil
You are an aviation accident investigator and you've answered a call in
the middle of the night. There was a crash of a commercial plane in Brazil.
The pilot had reported engine problems before the aircraft crashed in the
countryside.
You decide not to send an investigator because you are busy with investigations
on home soil.
You keep in close contact with Brazilian authorities and monitor the progress.
However, it is not long before you realize that the investigation is not taking
shape as you want. You end up sending an investigator after a week. By that
time the evidence has already been collected from the crash site.
The investigator reports back to you that the job has become more difficult.
Brazilian authorities follow a different method in their investigations. The
evidence was not documented as thoroughly as the investigator would have liked,
and now some questions are unanswered.
Aviation accident investigators could be called to go anywhere in the world
where an American product is involved.
Yearwood points out that difficult decisions are part of the job, and investigators
must do their best with the information they receive to make the right call
in the heat of the moment.