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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> This is not a very constructive comment.

He claims that actions were taken without any reason
to assume that they would be correct.

He ascribes motivations and makes assumptions about
the background and mindset of people involved in the
project.

I would like to know if he has any evidence for either
of these claims, and if so, what it is.

As a simple counterexample, technical people are often
the ones who choose to use C or C++ instead of Ada and
who leave things like buffer overflows in the code or
take other ill-advised shortcuts or fail to properly
document the code they write. So it's disingenuous to
assume that the Ariane 5 crash could only be the fault
of non-technical people.

You seem to know more about the Ariane 5 project than what
is found in the accident report. It would be kind if you can
provide links that would give us more information, aside from
the accident report which we already have.