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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> nothing happened to the lead designer (Moisseiff) or engineer (Eldridge)

It's a joke–a riff on a Parks and Recs meme making fun of Venezuela at the time. We don't jail aircraft engineers when they make a mistake because just sending people to jail doesn't work as well as encouraging them to co-operate ex post facto so the root cause can be identified.

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