Originally Posted by
pulse1
The AAIB has long been the bastion of an INDEPENDENT safety culture in the UK, held up as an example to other institutions as being free of the corrupting influence of money and power which is dragging most others into the gutter. I do hope that the above stories are not early indications of the AAIB going the same way.
No, they’re not. That happened some years ago. Finally, some people are beginning to talk freely about the decline the organisation has been in for many years. See my remark above about the chief inspector’s reporting line, which will help you understand why it is not independent…. The other problems it suffers have their own aetiology.