[Smogger]

They are average people like us, who do a professional job. You don't think that an appointed government official transcribes flight data recorders, do you?

My point precisely. They are just average people who do their jobs. Some of them are incompetent, some of them have their own agendas. As do private sector employees. I would suggest to you, however, that it is much more difficult for a public sector employee to be fired from a government job for incompetence or or due to poor job performance than it is for a private sector employee to be terminated for the same reasons.

[AlGone2001]

My point precisely. They are just average people who do their jobs. Some of them are incompetent, some of them have their own agendas.

What could a lower-level person have at stake by disclosing the whole truth? Please....

I dodn't think that the accident investigators have enough at stake to need a reason to lie to us.