Originally Posted by forgot to bid

The other thing about the Chairmans experience, I get that we believe the NTSB should have pilots investigating pilots.

However, the Chairman is a political appointee for the same reason all of the other branches and agencies of the government are political appointees and that is because they are supposed to be answerable to the public via the election of those who appoint and confirm them. Or that's the general idea. You wouldn't want a person that nobody could touch.

But in its own words the NTSB is an independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the U.S. and significant accidents in other modes of transportation-railroad, highway, marine and pipeline.

To find a Chairman who is certified to the highest levels of aviation (airplanes, helicopters, airships, gliders, balloons, etc) plus trains, trucks, ships, pipelines, etc,. would be impossible to find.

So that's a nonstarter. The career people are there for that.