I've been following this thread since the beginning and have learned a great deal of valuable information and appreciate all the feedback everyone has given. Thanks to everyone who's contributed, it definitely has expanded the scope of my knowledge pertaining to the accident as well as aviation operations and safety in general. Even with all the arm chair investigators as well as professionals, the back and forth provides for entertaining and informative reads...for the most part
one contributor sticks out ... though...
Originally Posted by
adamj023
In the hearings she is bring in all evidence which is not relevant to the determining cause. We know what impact damage would look like if a plane crashed in the same way as this one. We also know how a plane is engineered and what the internals look like and so on and so forth. This is just to feed the press information but it isn't investigative material that is relevant. Reminds me of when others control the information and don't get to the actual point of causation.
The material evidence which needs to be disclosed and gone over is not being talked about at all. I am sorry to say but the NTSB investigation seems to be a fruitless endeavor.
obviously it's too early to give a conclusive answer as to what the cause/causes were (using everyone assumption that it's pilot error). but it's also too early to say it wasn't. and saying the NTSB investigation is a sham is a ridiculous statement, unless you just have no idea how these investigations work.
something of this magnitude requires weeks and month to piece together exactly what happened, and i wouldn't expect them to provide premature pieces of information either. providing early information off of incomplete data is the best way start false rumors and judgement. that's exactly how the bias of pilot error started in the first place, assuming everything is still neutral right now. i'm not saying it's their fault, but i'm not saying it's not their fault either. just have to wait for the full investigation to finish. expecting the NTSB to entertain the regular public and provide piece-meal information without a complete analysis of what happened is just absurd.