Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
High-profile lawsuits with strong "human interest" appeal can create pressures on investigations by government units, or internally by other organizations, which short-circuit the process or tend toward weakening their integrity. But FAA is beyond all that or at least deserves benefit of the doubt even after its possible role in the 737 Max debacle.
The old expression "20,000 FAAs" has some truth to it. My view: with all the continuing publicity and public uproar over DAL 89, the FAA investigation will be relentless. Not unlike the FAA investigation of DAL's gross navigation errors on the North Atlantic when they were new out there.