Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Flight Safety Detectives
Episode: Worthless NTSB Report Adds to Faulty Safety Data
Description: Episode 131
Continuing the discussion started in Episode 128, the deficiencies of the NTSB report of a plane crash in Palo Alto are laid out. John, Greg, and Todd conclude that the report actually contributes to the problem of inaccurate data leading to time and money being spent on the wrong aviation safety issues.
Estimates are that more than 50 percent of NTSB reports are inaccurate, incorrect or outright wrong. This report is highlighted as a case in point.
Greg outlines several questions not answered – or incorrectly addressed – in the report. Here are just a few:
T...