Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/137470-will-ntsb-ever-release-report.html
The event was not a career-ender. It involved multiple external factors, including multiple reports of localizer mis-alignment, as well as pilot fatigue, more than one approach, and a descent to the surface without the runway environment in sight (despite the captain call of "lights," when clearly not aligned with the runway).
Despite multiple conspiracy insinuations here (read the linked thread), it was nothing of the sort, and was pretty much what it appeared to be. Nothing new.
having been on USAF Class A mishap boards that routinely delivered reports in 30 days, questioning a report taking as long as this one which had:
1. No fatalities/plenty of witnesses to what occurred.
2. Cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder easily recoverable/recovered.
3. ADSB flight path data pretty much instantly retrievable.
4. ATC communications with incident aircraft pretty much instantly retrievable.
5. A mostly intact aircraft just sitting there.
6. An entirely intact ILS.
does not strike me as particularly unreasonable.
Now the purpose of a mishap safety investigation is really not to punish the guilty, it's to prevent future mishaps, and to do that the lessons learned ought to be promulgated widely and PROMPTLY to those at potential risk.
Whether it was resource shortfalls or just a bureaucratic lack of urgency, considering the potential for disaster this represented it is not unreasonable to have expected them to get this finished and the relevant info widely distributed much sooner.