Corporate Problem Solving

This is, hands-down, my favourite news story of the week.

It seems Nepal Airlines ran into some electrical troubles with one of their planes, and had to delay several flights over the last few weeks as a result. Understandably, they wanted the problem fixed, and, being a major state-run airline, they pursued the most rational, efficient method at their disposal: goat sacrific.

They took two goats out in front of the plane, made a plea to Akash Bhairab (the Hindu god of sky protection), and did whatever it is that large, national corporations do when they want to kill goats. According to airline officials, it worked out great, and the plane is running fine.

My questions are as follows:

#1) What is the mechanism used to determine how many goats are needed for a sacrifice? We now know that two goats are required for electrical faults. Presumably engine troubles would require three, or even four, goats, while broken seat trays might be mended with a single goat. I assume this is all detailed in a procedure manual somewhere.

#2) Really? Goats?

That's it, no more goat-related posts for at least two weeks.