Chapter SevenIt was Adams himself who drilled Roy the morning before the flight.
And Roy totally blew it. He had the reporting structure correct, but the timing of “all safe” updates wrong. He kept allotting more duties to himself than he should have as head of detail.
“Trust your people to do their part of the job,” Adams admonished him again and again. Then completely destroyed the lesson by saying, “But if anything goes wrong it lands a hundred percent on you, not on them.”
Adams kept at him for two hours and Roy would swear that half of it wasn’t anywhere in the manuals. Throughout the interview Adams didn’t refer to the manuals or any testing sheet. Everything must be engraved in his memory. That’s when Roy realized that a lot of those procedures had probably been written or at lea
