Quote Originally Posted by BDunnell
Well, there have, but I was (and really should have qualified this) referring to the UK, where I'm struggling to think of a report that has subsequently been made out to be badly flawed.


I don't think there has been. Sections of the press and certain politicians tried to whip up a bit of outrage, but nothing more.
Well as it is not the objective of the AAIB to apportion blame, lets just say it depends how close to an accident one is to how one reads between the lines, so I might differ on your first point. There are a couple of reports I can think of in the past 5 years that have drawn an awful lot of comments from the aviation community who knew the pilots involved.

I used to work quite near the crash site, but now live out in the sticks, so can't really judge local reaction, certainly though the press seemed to be making as much of it as possible at the time and this included quotes/interviews with several outraged locals. I was rather thinking also how it appears on many unrelated forums too, it seems to be something a lot of people of talking about, whereas road accidents with multiple deaths rarely make the national news.