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Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash

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:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem by bitt3n · · Score: 1, Troll

    If a doctor is ever negligent you certainly wouldn't let his mates conduct the investigation.

    actually, that's standard practice