Originally Posted by F4E Mx

The board did not say, "We don't know" or more specifically they did not say, "We have a last line of data from the flight data recorder that we don't understand" which would be the responsible thing to say. Instead they blew it off and said that it belonged to an earlier flight which just is not possible given the parameters recorded. And it is not just the flight data recorder; there are enough flaws in this investigation to fill a large book. The NTSB board investigators, for example, performed a very,very small percentage of the witness interviews. Instead you had FBI agents with no aviation background interviewing former and retired military pilot witnesses with distinguished careers in aviation, many with combat experience in Vietnam. How can you have a dialogue and gain any insight when one party is completely unschooled in the subject? Why would you even try to do that when you have knowledgeable aviation investigators available? And it just gets worse from there.