General Discussion

it is not necessary for the crossing of the flight path near an airport then it should not be done. It may work out 1000 times but there is that one time it doesn't and as I said if it is not necessary then it shouldn't be done. But too many times safety personnel doing planning get overridden by higher ups who pooh-pooh that anything will happen or who do a risk/benefit analysis and decide, quietly, to accept a certain number of dead as the "cost" of doing it their way.

Now in the case of going "under" the flight path by a safe margin that is a different matter than what we see here at DC. I agree that the NTSB should do their job and like you I am concerned whether they will be completely free to do so or whether they will be interfered with or whether the report will undergo an "evaluation/editing" process before it is released.