On waiting for Board-final
Regarding the likelihood of waiting for the NTSB to complete its work and publish its final report on the JFK incident:
That would be the presumed timing, no doubt, but it appears quite possible for the current situation to call for a somewhat different - though also unique - approach.
Notice that NTSB currently is working on three incidents - Hawaii, Texas, New York. Yes I'm using the names of the states on purpose. FAA reauthorization, at times in the past, has been referred to as a kind of feeding frenzy at the trough of federal funding and appropriations. Not to profess naivete but this time around seems to be shaping up differently, to some degree at least. So the Congressional committees, including not just the legislators but also the professional Hill staffers who have acquired and earned significant knowledge, expertise and experience, could very credibly coax, or pressure, NTSB at least to supplement its JFK prelim report. Heck, the APA credibly could want this too, to show that after the initial resistance, the crew members did in fact provide all the answers in their (recorded) interviews that the Board investigators asked the crew to provide.
In making this assertion I'm relying partly on the formidable appearance yesterday of the NTSB Chair, albeit dealing with a major accident in a different industry. No one single Washington authority individually can bring about broad change, let alone in a sector of the U.S. economy as large, important, and complicated as commercial aviation. That said, do not be surprised if this current NTSB Chair.... to clean this up a bit.... is more than ready, willing, able and capable of proverbially kicking be-hinds and taking names.
Last edited by WillowRun 6-3; 24th Feb 2023 at 12:29.