What price safety?
The fact is flying has gotten safer and cheaper so the system seems to work. The NTSB and the FAA are a ying and yang and the end result is not bad.
The NTSB pushes an agenda that takes no account of economics or reality. No turbo props in the Northeast all winter, (great for pilot jobs). What the FAA will tell you is make flying cost more and more people drive and die in cars.
As for Mr Hall, after his pimping for Eygptair he is off the Christmas card list of most of his ex colleagues. Give the recent the information on this crash it is going to tough to hang it on the ice and Mr Hall seems to have slide down the totem pole.
The last time I looked the NTSB hit list included video cameras in the cockpit. Anyone care to go there?
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