Wow, exactly my way of thinking. So, Darth Rotor, does that
make you a CT too?
I guess you don't understand what I am talkling about, do you?
There are two problems with information release in any airplane crash.
One is the safety of flight, safety of operations problem: what can we learn from this wind shear crash to help not have more in the future? What can we learn from the "explosives in the cargo hold in Florida" crash that presents safer operations in the future? What can we learn about co pilots not putting the flaps down on take off at DFW to avoid screwing that up in the future? That information is often elicited from participants in "non attribution" mode, which means never for public release, with the explicit purpose of ensureing that, without fear of retribution, any and all human and material factors to a crash are open for investigation for acceptance or rejection as causal factors. The military does this, and this special handling is a matter of public law. It has been upheld by the courts countless times when mis hap investigations have been subpoena'd. JAG investigations, however, are open to FOIA. FAA and NTSB have similar, but not identical, rules governing their Safety investigations, versus their investigations regarding accountability and blame fixing. If FAA can show that American Airlines, or United Airlines, had garbage for security procedures, or had a disaster of a training program, or was negligent in maintenance procedures, those findings may be introduced in a civil case that results in punative damages in the event of a crash.
This leads to the second issue, liability. To avoid being held liable, reveal as little as possible so the lawyers attacking you can't use it.
Follow the Money, as it were, or follow the motivation to preserve money.
There are a complex series of regulation concerining the custody and applicability, ability to subpoena, and the ability to FOIA, an immense amount of detailed information related to airplane mishaps/crashes. Airlines are on the hook for hundreds of millions in liability claims, their insureres are as well, and any evidence that shows negligence or lack of due care not only costs the airline money up front, they may cost all air carriers more in fees in their pursuit of affordable underwriting from insurance carriers.
The government also, to include the FAA, and persons employed by the FAA, have a stake in not getting blamed: jobs can be lost, and suits filed against US gov't for negligence or gross error on the part of air traffic controllers. This hits government in the wallet, and hits cabinet level officers with the prospect of scandal, embarassment, or being canned.
The side cost, in millions, are the sometimes pointless and draconian regulations inflicted on operators that are bandaid fixes to solve simple problems . . . but I digress.
Nearly everyone involved in a mishap, or related to it, tends to go immediately into "cover your ass mode" to ensure they are not scape goated. This is human behavior.
This has nothing to do with planning a mishap on purpose, as is asserted by some of the C**T's, and has everything to do with an incomplete accounting being given.
The government's accounting of 9-11 is incomplete. There is no question about that. This incompleteness is hardly proof of complicity in teh four aircraft that were used as weapons against America, but it is an indication that people were covering up for errors in hopes to avoid being scapegoated in the biggest mess we'd had to date, as of 12 September 2001.
If the raw radar date is available, that jerk at Texas A & M would have to shut his cakehole, as would Dylan Assery, and a whole host of other morons.
DR