UPS 1354 NTSB Investigation - CVR

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Originally Posted by IGh

So, of course then the NTSB does NOT revoke the USA's manufacturer's Party Status:

To be fair, there's a considerable difference between a technical briefing regarding improvements to avoid a system failure which was already public knowledge and what amounts to leaking details of an ongoing investigation which have not yet been made public.

Similarly, NTSB did NOT revoke their big manufacturer's Party Status after the famous Boeing Scenario was proposed in the summer of 1979.

The H. "Hoot" Gibson incident again - really?

In that instance the lead investigator may have accepted Boeing's conclusions, but let's not forget that the NTSB summarily rejected Boeing's proposed scenario regarding the 737 rudder hard-over problems.

Originally Posted by porterhouse

NTSB has been very independent, its track record is spotless.

Not quite, it has stumbled a few times since being granted independence - but overall its record is pretty solid.