Mitchaa
Forget that you are all pilots, forget that you know anything at all about aviation. You are now a teacher, a fireman or a plumber.
OK. I'll pretend I know nothing about flight safety, the advantages of the 'just culture' when investigating air crashes and the benefits it brings to flight safety.
Your son, daughter, mother or father has died in a helicopter crash
OK, so as well as knowing absolutely nothing about the best means of maintaining and improving flight safety I'm now also distressed and emotionally involved.
Do you think there is public interest in getting answers or do you think there is public interest in maintaining a no blame culture within the aviation sector?
I'd want "answers" and if it turned out that pilot error caused the accident I'd want them banned from flying ever again, locked up and throw away the key etc etc.
I wouldn't know enough to form any opinion about what is in the best interests of future flight safety - even if I cared - and even if I was capable of thinking rationally about it which is very unlikely.
If you ask 100 random strangers whether the CVFDR should be analysed by a prosecution team in the event of fatalities, what do you think the outcome would be?
If you ask 100 random strangers how to fly a helicopter, teach, put out fires or plumb, what do you think the outcome would be?
Do you think Joe public give a monkeys about what culture we all adopt in aviation?
No, in most cases, because they know nothing about it and have never given it any thought.
But I wouldn't rely on Joe public's opinion about the best way to teach, put out fires or plumb.
I'd rely upon specialists in the field.
And if my son, daughter, mother or father was injured in an accident I'd want experts treating them, not Joe Public.
Excluding expert knowledge, and then adding emotion, is not going to produce sensible answers.
the answers are under lock and key .....
You've lost me there.
The answers, so far as can be determined by independent air accident investigation specialists, are published in AAIB reports not kept under lock and key.
Are you interested in knowing the answers or in having people prosecuted?