MORE NTSB GRIPES
I read Rick Durden’s commentary in the October 2021 Aviation Consumer on the NTSB reports with interest. Durden’s complaints about the CAROL system—and the NTSB’s responsiveness to questions about it—are exact mirrors of my own experience.
I used to use the NTSB aviation accident database on an almost daily basis in my role as an aviation safety advocate. I used preliminary and final reports from the database, plus material in the Docket, to put together frequent safety seminars and webinars for pilots. That resource became instantly unavailable when the NTSB, with zero warning, dropped the older, very accessible search tool for CAROL.