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NTSB Correspondence
The NTSB has been as unwilling to admit or promote the idea of crashworthiness - regardless of Burnelli. The NTSB have been hiding behind vague statements and in his own words NTSB Chairman Jim Burnett stated in a letter dated
September 16, 1986 to Dr. Edmund J. Cantilli, Executive Director of
The Institute for Safety in Transportation:
"the Board's congressional mandate does not provide it [the NTSB] with the legislative authority nor does the Board have the staff to conduct an evaluation of the Burnelli Lifting Body with respect to its crashworthiness features or to evaluate or endorse specific aircraft design concepts."
And in the same letter, the above sweeping statement is made in contradiction to:
"[NTSB]concerns about the sometimes obvious disparities that exist in the crashworthiness of different airplane designs."
Unfortunately the above was also a rehash of
a previous answer containing generally the same information,
claiming that the NTSB did not have the authority to recommend
airplane designs. Dr. Cantilli reminded Mr. Burnett of the
recommended design changes to railroad tank cars made by the NTSB.
Futhermore, time or the appearance of a new NTSB Chairman doesn't
change anything to their policy. You'll see from the Flight
International article of October 6-12, 1999 that the NTSB wants to control what the
airlines tell the public after an accident has occured.
Meaning the public is to get as little information from
others? Does it make it easier to manipulate stories if
the public isn't given so much information from different
sources?
Finally, on September 13, 1999, Mr.
Goodlin of the Burnelli Company wrote to James Hall, Chairman of the
NTSB
with appropriate documentation to once again
ask:
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"Why has
the NTSB failed to recognize that the cause of
most aircrash fatalities is due to the
fundamental flaws
which are inherent in conventional
airliners?"
[Ed.: emphasis
added]
On October 25, 1999 Mr. Goodlin wrote a letter asking for a response since none
had been received. On November 5, 1999 Mr. Goodlin finally
received a reply - dated October 27, 1999 (does it really take 9
days for First Class mail to travel from Washington, DC to
Miami?) which again didn't answer the principal question (printed above in large
letters).
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The Burnelli Company wrote another letter to
the NTSB's Chairman Hall reiterating the principal question on
November 15, 1999. On December 14, 1999, Chairman Hall wrote another unresponsive letter, sidestepping and ignoring the principal question.
The NTSB cannot answer the principal
question above because in doing so they would admit to
wrong-doing. See "NTSB admits dependence on
industrty" for more details.
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