“…a structural engineer who became a hero to other structural engineers when he detected and repaired a potentially catastrophic flaw in the Citicorp building in Manhattan, died on June 14 in Casco, Maine… Mr. LeMessurier was first alerted to the problem by someone he regarded as a nettlesome engineering student in June 1978.” NYT | The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis
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re; The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis
what a flawlessly favorable aftermath of a big flaw.
probably, in the light of todays mind sets about corporate litigation and liability industry, somebody would force LeMessurier suicide, architect demoted to social security retirement, and so on. also, wind tunnel engineer would be exterminated before he left canada. like LeMessurier finishes him off before turns the gun to himself...
it is sad to see LeMessurier's generation of american sincerety and problem solving is divindling and replaced by dagger happy set of so called professionals.
a lot of ultimately fatal welding cracks in pre 94 northridge earthquake high rise steel buildings in downtown los angeles, is kept low profile and unfixed.
related la weekly article 'Weld Wars'
Peace be upon him. I still get goosebumps every time I think of that story.
LeMessurier has hopefully earned his place in future engineering and ethics textbooks for a long time yet.
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