Just going on from Adrian's post...
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Indonesia has suffered a string of airline disasters in recent years, raising concerns about safety and prompting the European Union to ban all Indonesian airlines from its airspace.
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Also from
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...?section=world
I also agree with Stephen on this, if all the evidence proves that the pilot was negligent, why should he/she not be subject to criminal prosecution? I can understand that the purpose of the investigation is to increase safety in the aviation industry, but my
understanding is that in most commercial aircraft incidents there is enough solid data (from data recorders, radar and voice recorders etc) to give investigators a clear picture of what happened before they even need to speak to the pilots.
I just don't see how it is any different to a bus driver crashing purely from negligence. If it is a fault with equipment, then of course the pilot should not be held liable - but if it is
clearly the pilot's fault that the plane crashed then he/she should be criminally tried.