Originally Posted by
CayleysCoachman
and I'm especially not impressed by a sporting organisation with enormously vested interests running the investigation into the death of someone who paid to do something
I don't think it is an issue.
British Skydiving has long had a very high standard for investigating skydiving accidents in detail, I'd say as an outsider with experience in skydiving in Canada and the US. The real knowledge about the sport comes from within the sport. Sometimes there are military skydivers who do civilian style skydiving and have the requisite knowledge. But otherwise, people in the airworthiness authorities or elsewhere tend not to have the knowledge of the sport to properly judge what happened (or else can only find out and learn by being particularly open minded, and conducting excruciatingly detailed and long investigation and inquiries). I have seen a few coroner's inquests or workplace safety investigations in North American, for skydiving accidents, where they made absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical statements, and various recommendations, that show a total lack of understanding of the sport.