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December 24th, 2003
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Investigating the fall of Columbia

The LA Times ran an article documenting the process of investigating the crash of the Columbia. It ends thusly:

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When accident investigators sought out a report documenting details of the shuttle’s design or performance, they often found only PowerPoint presentations.

Without the knowledgeable voice of the engineers who had originally presented them, the slides were meaningless.

The board’s investigators soon coined a phrase for this new institutional amnesia.

“Death by PowerPoint.”

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Full article:

The fate of a wing shaped by politics
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-shuttle24dec24,1,7680698.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

An ironic twist compounding the normal problem of degrading digital storage media and incompatible formats.

The article also mentions the interesting fact that the shuttles flight recorder uses a technology the data recovery folk hadn’t regularly worked with in three decades: 1 inch tape.

Kind of scary to think that the shuttles would be dependent on such… on the other hand, the tape was recoverable; I wonder if a more modern data storage mechanism would have survived the fall to earth.

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