[skylanh]

My first comment on this site was about Bombardier.

Bombardier went into high-risk, high-reward territory, and failed:

1) project they'd never done before

2) technology they'd never used to build and model

3) highly integrated supply-chain with large number of partners delivering large sub-components that had to integrate with other large sub-components

4) pre-planned delivery dates to customers, and still had at least two delivery slips

5) "bet the farm"

Additionally, the C-suite was comprised of nepotistic family connections--who may have been fully qualified, or may have only achieved their role due to the family ownership.

Political conjecture aside, this is a engineering and business failure.