From the Board's site:
"... National Transportation Safety Board today removed the National Air Traffic Controllers Association as a party to its investigation into the August 8 midair collision ... Under the Safety Board's procedures ... At the outset of the investigation ... agreement to abide by NTSB party rules ... parties agree ... will not reveal investigative information being learned through that process, nor publicly comment on it. Parties agree that only the NTSB will release factual information on the progress of the investigation ..."
This strict reaction, by the USA's Safety Board, deserves attention. Now we have this mostly so-so, investigative organization [NTSB], so inattentive, so unable to correct their own past errs -- now responding HARSHLY to a minor justified comment by an angry "party".
Many of us have waited decades for the Safety Board to correct their own, admitted, past errs. The USA's Board mostly refuses to even acknowledge their prior errs. Petitions for Reconsideration are not effective, Board's errs mostly go uncorrected.
Over the past decades, during the field phase of an investigation, how many times has the USA's Safety Board responded so harshly after comments from a more favored "party" -- the USA's big manufacturer??