Originally Posted by
Mariner9
There are a few UK based consultancy companies that investigate accidents and incidents on behalf of insurance companies or lawyers (where litigation is involved). Typically, their investigation is at least as thorough as that of the AAIB.
Might be worth googling for them and see if any trainee investigator positions are available.
In my experience, such consultancy based investigations are usually a lot more directed towards specific questions than AAIB's work, and mostly vacancies are only for people with considerable relevant industry experience. A court or insurance company is primarily interested in liaility, rather than prevention or deep understanding of the underlying factors. That said, I have a lot of time for the phorensic reporting approach, which is remarkably close to modern academic writing and I enjoy being asked to write in it when I do this sort of work occasionally (if not the half-filing cabinet of evidence that a typical case can easily accumulate!).
G