Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 2, 2012 @10:51PM 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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Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-03 01:12 · Score: 5, Informative

You do realize there are all of about 600 of us working in the US who have been trained in any aspect of accident investigation, and like all but 30, I'm in the military.