On June 3, 1998, 101 people were killed and at least 88 were injured in the world's worst ever high-speed rail disaster.

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1. Welcome to my nightmare

For some segments of my working life, anyway. And not necessarily wheels on rail cars specifically. Everything from line-by-line examination of potential modes of failure before production even begins to the failure analysis done after the fact. Aerospace was perhaps the most worrisome for me - especially components of the landing gear. I never handled wreckage from anything associated with poor design on my part, but I’ve been close to it. Thankfully, I wasn’t involved with design - or even Quality to a great extent - at that point in time. I just got to examine the results from actual failures on vehicles - some of which could have been catastrophic.