WABI5: Independence of NTSB aviation investigations questioned over reliance on outside help
John Goglia is a cited expert in this news article.
Throughout his career spanning half a century, including almost a decade as an NTSB board member, John Goglia participated in countless aviation crash investigations — including the catastrophic TWA-800 explosion in 1996 that sent an airplane bound for Paris into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now, he offers his expertise in other ways, including through a flight safety podcast he started with other aviation experts where they discuss crash investigations and their takeaways.
Goglia said he believes the NTSB risks missing potentially critical details about what led to a crash when they don’t have an on-scene presence during an investigation.
“We often say [on the podcast] that the NTSB hit the big red easy button for some of the probable causes just to just to move it along,” he said.
Goglia said he takes issue with the inherent assertion that on-scene efforts by the FAA are equivalent to what would be done by an NTSB investigator.
