On the radio this morning they were explaining the whole situation like this:
- Rescuers group A finds victims.
- Rescuers group A radios to Rescuers group B half way up the mine.
- Person A, on the surface, intercepts poor quality radio signal after it travelled nearly a mile through rock.
- Person A calls Person B, who is at the church with the families.
- Person B tells the families what Person A said, but Person A heard wrong.
Now, since Person A and Person B worked for the mining company everyone took it as hard fact, even though working for the company in question does not suddenly make you infallible.
As was said before, it was a simple mistake with a bad outcome.
During all this, "how could they make a mistake like this," freak out the media forgot to ask what happened to cause the collapse and to report on the 170 people that died in a landslide in Indonesia. I belive that instead of asking how this mistake could be made we should ask how the collapse happened and how are the rescue efforts in Indonesia, where a natural disaster has buried men women and children.
The time to be angry at whomever made this mistake is past. They didn't kill those men and I am sure that they deeply regret the trauma that they have caused. The first step towards healing is to move on past this mistake and to begin grieving.
