The National Transportation Board investigates every general aviation accident.  It chalks up the vast majority to pilot error. But half the time, it’s just wrong. The trouble’s that, in investigating an accident, the NTSB refuses to consult with the pilot’s family or the family’s experts. Rather, it invites into the investigation only other potentially responsible parties–usually the manufacturers of the plane and the plane’s engine–seeking their technical “expertise.” That introduces into the investigation an inherent…

The FAA is too cozy with the manufacturers it is supposed to regulate.  I’ve been writing about that since 2009.  The press is just now becoming interested, asking how the FAA ever allowed the 737 Max to be certified. What does that have to do with a helicopter case and a murder investigation? In 2001, an Assistant US Attorney, Tom Wales, was shot and killed in his Seattle home.  Wales had prosecuted a…