Originally Posted by RobertS975
There was a very well written editorial in a recent Aviation Week and Space Technology pointing out the severe dangers to aviation safety when accident investigations are thrown into the legal arena.
There was a series of one-page columns in his series "A European Perspective" by Pierre Sparaco in Aviation Week in 2006 which addressed exactly this: 22.05.2006, "Investigative Errors"; 03.07.2006 "Missed Opportunity"; and 13.11.2006, "Unwanted Crimininalisation". Sparaco was AvWeek's European editor and now writes the column every other week.
This is not only a problem in aviation. See the talk "Negotiating Accidents" at
http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/Biel...inB9Slides.pdf
for some examples from the rail industry.
PBL