Originally Posted by
goldfish85
Cyranno,
I agree. It makes no sense to redact the registration, operator, and crew names. Particularly when they listed the serial number of the aircraft and the certificate numbers of the crew. Let's see .... how many German registered MD-11's crashed at Ryadh that day?
Apparently it was requested by the German accident investigation board, who have a history of hiding registration identification. This is happening in the US as well.
Thanks for clarifying, Goldfish. I don't necessarily expect to see the crew names, but the registration and operator would be fairly obvious after a few seconds of Google search, so I am really not sure what the motivation for this apparent BFU policy is.