Originally Posted by
India Four Two
Thanks for your informative post on the TR history. It’s always been of a subject of interest to me since the Cranbrook crash. The FO was a friend of mine.
You're definitely welcome. That post is obviously very top level - if I went to much into the gory details the result would have been so long, few people would bother to read it.
I was heavily involved in the Lauda investigation - by far the most difficult thing I had to do during my career. It was the only fatal crash investigation that I was directly involved in, and it really started getting to me emotionally, particularly as it quickly become obvious that engineering wise we'd missed something - and made all the worse that (as I've noted on other threads) you're basically under a gag order during the investigation - I was only allowed to discuss it with other people involved in the investigation. I could never have been an accident investigator - emotionally it was just too difficult to isolate the impact of what had happened.
If you want more details of the TR history, PM me...