Quebec Tango wrote:
Jim,

Would you agree or disagree that it is unusual for a preliminary
accident report to contain such a direct statement about the
interpretation of the FARs (or anything else)? This seems to me to be
pretty far out of the mainstream of the SOP for investigations.

The statement seems uninformed at best, and tempts me question the
overall qualithy of this investigation process.


I agree, that's farther than I would ever go, but I'm not NTSB.

One correction to my earlier statement regarding enforcements, if an
FAA enforcement case goes all of the way to an NTSB law judge (a small
number of them make it that far) it becomes public record that you can
read at ntsb.gov.

Jim