Originally Posted by UKRIO
The original BOI didn't have time to interview the eyewitnesses as the Court Martial proceedings halted the inquiry.
I don't really understand what point you are trying to make. I am no expert on BoI procedure but no matter what processes exist between the BoI and the prosecuting authority for the transfer of the investigation between the two, the net result is that eyewitnesses were not interviewed prior to the Court Martial (they were called by the defence counsel) and the evidence that they supplied at the Court Martial has been discounted by the second BoI. Five individual witnesses from more than one location south east of the crash site gave evidence which consistently supported the defence case, yet the second BoI chose to discredit or ignore the evidence of all five.
As a matter of interest, the USAF also concluded their Accident Investigation Board Report without interviewing any of the known eyewitnesses: a strange parallel.