Originally Posted by
edmundronald
I have little respect for the Daily Mail or Sun scare stories. But supplying a legal basis for stopping publication of in-depth reports on the industry is to say it mildly suicidal. As pilots, do you think the industry would be better off it the the AF 447 report had been buried?
Edmund
Where did you read that there is any intention to bury accident reports? That is not even close to what has been proposed. The MOR program is intended to provide data to regulators about certain higher level events / issues that may be indicators of risk. The program relies heavily upon the concept of just culture since many items on the mandatory list involve human performance issues. Protection of the data is only meant to encourage reporting without fear of reprisal, either in the form of employer punishment or by wildly uninformed speculation and tarnishing of reputations by irresponsible media and lawyers.