Comment Re: and dog eats tail (Score 1) 393
The NTSB says he's been cooperative, so I guess your theory is bogus. As far as "lawyering up," well, that might have something to do with people like you that have already tried, convicted, and sentenced him. Retaining counsel is not an admission of guilt in our system of jurisprudence.
Indeed, the NTSB has in the past discouraged rushes to prosecution. Our standard justice system is outstanding at thoroughly punishing people anytime something goes wrong (regardless of whether they could have done much about it happening). It is less good at actually fixing problems so that they don't happen over and over again. The NTSB tends to take a longer view and they're less interested in whether one train engineer goes to jail than why we have a system where a single delinquent engineer can kill a whole bunch of people. That kind of distinction is why aircraft are so much safer than cars. With a car crash we throw the drunk in jail. With a plane crash we ask how it was that a drunk even was able to get behind the controls, and thus we don't really have drunks flying planes because there are so many places they'd get caught along the way that it just doesn't happen. The former approach leads to lots of satisfied families who can watch their loved one's killer rot in jail, while the latter approach avoids having victims in the first place.