Originally Posted by
Hobbit64
True, the 73's had the NTSB stumped for a while (COS & PIT), but that was a very different time.
These days the media just can't wait for an aviation/airline related story to sensationalize and whip the public into a frothy screaming mess.
Heck I just saw news article covering a return to gate by AAL for a pax that was farting too much.
Life has now become Art. We are living the movie 'Idiocracy'. Any hickup and the public will grab the pitchforks and rakes.
I can't wait for Babylon Bee to come out with an article saying that the Biden Administration is dissolving NTSB in an effort to modernize and streamline any accident investigation process. From now on, all future investigations will be crowdsourced via social media. Any accident investigations and any airworthiness issues will be investigated by self-appointed and self-aggrandized Facebook and Twitter experts, Delta Air Lines Pilots who, for example, are experts in all aspects of B-737 MAX operations, as well as experts in forums who wish to remain somewhat anonymous i.e. Airline Pilot Central. Our media will decide, via fact-checkers, what is truth and what is fiction, and will publish official findings.