Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash 84
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."
Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem (Score:5, Informative)
You don't understand pride in your company, do you? They aren't saying that they won't be able to investigate fairly, but they want to avoid the situation where a FAA or NTSB investigator might want to hide some evidence showing that their friend was a drunk who crashed the plane. Again, not saying that they won't be able to investigate fairly, but they just don't want their guys to be in that position.
Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem (Score:4, Informative)
What would happen if a medical doctor ever became hurt by another doctor? Send them to Canada?
No. You'd find a third doctor that wasn't connected to either of the two doctors. If you were looking for a medical opinion for a malpractice case for instance, you wouldn't use a doctor that is part of the same practice as the accused doctor. There may not be any actual bias, but even the appearance of such can have negative consequences.
Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem (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.