Originally Posted by
cordwainer
The CAB report doesn't just assert, it states, "Based on the Lockheed study, Board investigators prepared the estimated flghtpath chart." It's absurd, therefore, to purport the chart contains flightpaths or an envelope that was not in the Lockheed study at all.
I don't know what your experience might be involving bureaucracy and the shedding of responsibility, but consider the situation. The CAB wants legitimacy for their investigation, so they invoke the Lockheed name in their report to give weight to their guesses. The CAB would have provided Lockheed with the witness statements as to flight paths, so to that extent those flightpaths were indeed part of the Lockheed investigation. Note the reference to the school house and the radar building in the flightpath map. These were probably landmarks used by witnesses in describing the flight. None of this means that Lockheed gave those paths any credence. The explicit statement that Lockheed considered the inner path to be the only possible one should tell you how much weight Lockheed gave in the end to the other paths that were offered as possibilities.