Carson Helicopters contests NTSB findings for Iron 44 crash.
Frank Carson in a letter to the NTSB stated that his company "believed that important evidence had been mishandled and was then ignored by the NTSB investigators in order to close the investigation as quickly as possible."
"The NTSB ignored the experienced copilot's direct testimony that he saw signs of power loss in the #2 engine immediately prior to the crash and they ignored his direct reading of the actual air temperature at the scene in favor of manufactured data that fit their preconceived narrative.
"The NTSB lost care and custody of fuel control unit (FCU) parts early in this investigation and from that point forward did not pursue evidence chains leading to the fuel control units."
President Carson went on to say: "On December 7, 2010 when the NTSB held a news conference stating that the main cause of the accident was Carson's alleged use of false charts and weights, I knew that my faith in a fair and impartial investigation had been ill-founded."
"Carson strongly believes that the accident was caused by the loss of power to the #2 engine due to contamination in the fuel control, which the NTSB chose to ignore even after reviewing indisputable evidence brought to its attention. The NTSB's lack of interest in looking beyond its initial conclusion is fortified by its failure to interview the surviving copilot who clearly remembers that the #2 engine lost power before the crash."
Carson Helicopters contests NTSB findings for Iron 44 crash | KDRV