>I find it worrying that it took them so long to come to the obvious conclusion
Aviation regulators and internet forums are literally at the opposite end of the spectrum with regards to jumping to conclusions.
Aviation regulators and internet forums are literally at the opposite end of the spectrum with regards to jumping to conclusions.
What bothers me is that yesterday, Garneau was basically saying, "until we're sure the plane is unsafe, we're going to keep flying it." That's backwards.
Internet forums may be "jumping to conclusion" but regulators have had this data for days, and didn't act on it. They only acted after regulators in Europe and elsewhere acted first.
It's their job to keep people safe. They do that by looking at data they trust. I don't envy the position they're in this week one bit.
If I was a regulator I'd want a verified and traceable data source as well.
The Brazilian flight authority, for example, makes this kind of decision once a week, and there's a backlog. Even if all the technical analysis was ready minutes after the accident, it wouldn't have decided on it yet. Most western ones have a similar organizational model.
Data gathering takes days, data verification takes days, every time one has to contact somebody in a timezone with 4+ hours of difference, it takes a couple of days, informing superiors takes days, scheduling a decision takes days, even publishing it takes days.