Originally Posted by
tucumseh
In military accidents this is the role of the Service Inquiry engineer. In civilian accidents, the AAIB. The latter are pretty good at it; although in this case they didn't go too far, but said enough to identify the culprits. The former simply don't bother, and it is left to the public to investigate. The 'final act' syndrome.
Spot on. And I know you've said this repeatedly and understand it, but one is independent and the other is judging its own case.