CASE-1109 CLOSED opened 2019-05-15 · last reviewed 2019-08-01

Unit 9 Stop

Investigation of an autonomous stop that proved correct, and of the hours spent trying to prove it wrong.

Uncertainty is part of the file. Fictional institutional record — not a real-world claim.

Lead
Directorate V
Status
CLOSED
Opened
2019-05-15
Last reviewed
2019-08-01

Known

  • Unit 9 stopped under a published stop condition (SEN-19-034).
  • Operators spent hours attempting to override or disprove the stop.
  • Post-review retained the stop condition.

Open questions

  • Would a different operator crew have accepted the stop sooner?

Competing explanations

  1. False positive stop — rejected.
  2. Correct stop with operator disbelief as the lasting finding — retained.

Evidence

  1. SEN-19-034
  2. SEN-22-018
  3. SEN-23-041

Counter-evidence / limits

  • Attempts to prove a false-positive stop failed under review.

Timeline

  1. 2019-05-14

    Field report

    SEN-19-034
  2. 2019-08-01

    Closed — stop condition retained

Disclosure history

  1. 2019-05-15 — Case opened
  2. 2019-08-01 — Closed; stop condition retained in public guidance

Current status / finding

Closed. The stop condition was correct; the operators' disbelief is the lasting finding.

Institutional fiction. Uncertainty is retained on purpose — do not read a finding as a real-world claim.

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