Originally Posted by
ethicalconundrum
From the prelim report: "Flight crew statements were received." From the perspective of the FAA, they have completed their mandated reporting of an 'incident'. Let the feds make of it what they will with the info received. It really doesn't take a lot of energy to figure out what went wrong here.
But that's only statements, not answers to questions in an interview. From the perspective of the NTSB, they're not fulfilling their requirements. You can't just assume that they've gotten confused with what they heard. You've got to consider other factors.