So does keeping birdstrike data from the public necessitate keeping the data from professional flight crew? If so, why?
That's like keeping intelligence about terrorist activities prior to 9/11 from commercial pilots, instead of keeping us informed (under confidentially agreements, of course), so thus we had the tragic events of that horrid day.
They parse out relavant info and data to us as though we were step children, and insult us with silly badges and belittleing security charades.