Dozy
And yet the NTSB has been the sole investigatory authority for US-made airframes flown by US-based airlines for decades without similar aspersions being cast - why the double standard?
You create the double standard by defining it, and you haven't let me agree. There is no difference in the lack of suitability NTSB/BEA to perform their mission.
The environment for both is populated by people whose job descriptions are written by other people, similarly situated....
The conflict is glaringly obvious, to deny it, is, well, denial....
These folks are
BUDS. It is not fair to demand intellectul isolation of the investigators from their
confreres. It goes against human nature, and in and of itself creates the conflict.
Assuming people can easily transform themselves into Solomon, is patently ridicilous, and childish.
"Ombudsman"......eliminating the potential, and hence reality, of conflicts.
"Peer".....QED