[hyperman1]

Jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence is unfortunately quite common once economic pressure makes the correct way of running things untenable.

Everybody starts cutting small corners everywhere, assuming it doesn't matter much as all the other people are still doing their job. One day, a corner too many gets cut, and the slack in the system is too small to catch what should be a minor problem.

Don't trust the public facade and official reports, they have been filtered by PR departments and by people not wishing to report bad news to their managers and peers