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Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-law-school-hypothetical dept.

knorthern knight writes "When 2 light civilian planes collide in U.S. airspace in Virginia, the usual response includes calling in the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) to investigate and make recommendations based on their results. But what do you do when the crash involves two planes piloted by a crash investigator with the FAA and the chief medical officer with the NTSB? In order to avoid conflict of interest by American investigators working for these agencies, the investigation has been turned over to to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada as a neutral 3rd party."

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  1. Re:Amazing! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's aboot time.

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  2. Re:Amazing! by 2.7182 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait a second I think they are investigating the wrong thing. What they need to settle is this - if a plane crashes *exactly* on the border of the US and Canada, where you do bury the survivors?

  3. Re:Amazing! by digitig · · Score: 2, Funny

    They probably couldn't get anybody from the EU to put up with all the visa and security theatre nonsense.

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  4. Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem by bitt3n · · Score: 4, Funny

    THE JEWS/MUSLIMS/PETA/MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR DID IT!".

    I'd have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, blowing things up is generally to be frowned upon. On the other, the fact that these groups could come together to behind a common cause would serve a both an inspiration and a reason to hope for the future of humanity.

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