re: BP Company Man

Every day more than one passenger plane takes of with some piece of equipment that is not working 100%. The captain of the plane makes the decision that whatever is malfunctioning will not compromise safety. Mr Vidrine had to make the same call, it is doubtful he made a decision he thought would endanger the rig workers. Planes have crashed because the Captain choose to take off with a faulty indicator light that any other time would have been irrelavant, but this one time a sequence of events occured that made it critical to the flight. The same thing happened here, a decision was made by a man based on the information he had at the time.