Investigation, cont'd
@Desert185
I get that the union has its own investigatory team and that their effort is part of or co-ordinated with NTSB. And also that NTSB in general is very thorough. And while I truly appreciate the comtent of your post, yours did not answer a key part of my inquiries. Please allow me to clarify: I'm starting from a premise about the Quality, writ large, of the cumulative posts here. The content in-thread has: (1) depth (in the sense of sharp focus on detail and thoroughness so as to be comprehensive on any given substantive point);
(2) scope (in the sense of including all (or substantially all) the subject matters that make up the factual picture of this crash, and all the analytic or operational matters as well);
(3) veteran aviator perspective earned through vast accumulations of flight and PIC hours; and
(4) a robust give-and-take which demands participants to think before they post but then also -and this is key - continue thinking as the thread is spun.
If it is valid to say the Quality - again, writ large - of this thread would earn it placement at, say, the Ph.D. level at some hypothetical Naval War College program on administration of a CAA/safety regulation of civil aeronautics, then how would the NTSB investigation-in-fact compare? Is it "Ph.D." Quality? Perhaps even better? Or still slogging it out for a Master's?
I have my own opinion, and since it is an unqualified one, I'm refraining from expressing it expressly, though its veil is rather thin.