Caught this guys(Dan Gryder)  Youtube channel.  He has a series of videos coming up that are calling out the NTSB in regards to some previous crash investigation results/causes.   Here is the teaser video basically announcing the upcoming videos and discussing briefly all of them.   Some interesting observations.

Is that the guy that tried to run from the cops in a DC3?




ETA:  Yeah, it's him.  

His videos suck.

Interesting, I wonder what they were citing him for originally.  Must be pretty disgruntled

Everyone has heard my feelings on the NTSB to their exhaustion.

However, in fairness, once you understand the NTSB is a political entity, it makes their actions much more logical.

At some point there has be a good enough regulatory or fact finding backstop. Both they and the FAA are that. Not outstanding, and both are quite demonstrably susceptible to regulatory capture despite their protestations to the contrary. Oddly enough, that capture seems much more prevalent at the higher levels than the working levels.

That said, the NTSB will happily present a "good enough" finding in the absence of the clear cut cause, and if it can have a crew nexus even better. One only has to look at the considerable time and effort that ALPA alone puts into independent accident investigation capability as a silent referendum on full faith in the NTSB. Politically, the NTSB wants to create public faith in the air transport system, not necessarily create an objectively safer system.

deleted.  I'll follow the "if you can't say anything nice..." rule on this one.

Good luck, Dan.

Well, blind pigs can find nuts occasionally.

I would say that a dual engine failure most likely, all things being equal, initial probable cause would be bad fuel, and not egregiously bad piloting.

Or, he could have just refrained and waited for, you know, the investigators to investigate.

Honestly, that's the problem. Obviously our Union doesn't trust the "investigators to investigate" and come up with an unvarnished version of events. Its sends its own observers.

The guy has his right to opine on all sorts of stuff, just as we do here. In a Part 91 accident that potentially has significant ramifications, there are relatively few limitations on OEM and government groupthink, to be generous.