Re the AAIB notes, police and the court judgement I think there's a bit of a danger of target fixation with Shoreham.
The danger of divulging AAIB notes verbatim to the police is that the simple knowledge that anything a crew member says to the AAIB could be passed verbatim to the Police would almost certainly have consequences for the pace of the AAIB investigation, and as a result could possibly effect public safety down the road (which is what the court ruling was about, not just the Shoreham case).
Crew members, no matter how professional, certainly would have to be very careful with absolutely everything they said to the AAIB if there's the danger of the CPS subsequently parsing every innocent sentence/comment looking for evidence of some wrong doing, and I suspect the crew would would be well advised to be lawyered up for every meeting, no matter how friendly the investigators are.
Just MVHO, but that does seem to have also been the opinion of the judges...
Last edited by wiggy; 29th Sep 2016 at 15:31.