andykee

I'd recommend listening to the This American Life episode (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/634/...) where they interview the two airmen involved.

tldr; The socket didn't properly fit the wrench and they had to manually hold the socket on the end of the wrench. One man dropped the socket, which fell through a small gap between the walkway and missile. The torque wrench was large enough that it would not have slipped through this gap if/when dropped.

Using the wrong wrench almost caused a nuclear catastrophe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...

It may seem like micromanagement, but small seemingly meaningless deviations from procedure can add up to big problems, particularly when dealing with space.

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