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."

Comments

Re:Amazing!

[drinkypoo]

You see a rational decision, I see an opportunity for collusion. Canadian agencies have been behaving more and more like American ones of late.

"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attempt)

[Reality Master 301]

You assume the FAA and NTSB can investigate the incident objectively? No? Sheesh, can the US become more of a third world country? I guess they can refuse to investigate unless they get paid by an "interested party", but that's about it. Seriously? You can't investigate objectively because the people involved were in your organisation? What would happen if a medical doctor ever became hurt by another doctor? Send them to Canada?

Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem

[bitt3n]

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

actually, that's standard practice