It says some progress is being made with "pilot judgments" - that is, advice on specific legal changes that states need to make to avoid similar cases recurring.
American Airlines began a private inquiry Friday into what Mr. Wagner described as the pilot's "poor judgment" and "inappropriate" comments.
But not every accident is an indictment of aviation's training, safety and maintenance programs, nor necessarily reflective of poor pilot skill or judgment, nor indicative of a conspiracy of manufacturers to sell us faulty parts.
The NTSB's final hearing on May 1, 2007 determined that "the pilots' inadequate planning, judgment, and airmanship in the performance of a 180-degree turn maneuver inside of a limited turning space" caused the crash.
With Cosell, there was the faintest of lines between self and self-parody, and yet through all the outlandish blowhardery there was a pilot light of sane judgment.
"The universal preference, however, has been to require pilots, so that human judgment is available.
The judgment concerning whether a pilot study can be published as a 'stand alone' monograph or possibly together with another study as a combined monograph is made by the editorial board.
The White House hopes that a recent Supreme Court decision upholding a $45.5 million judgment against American's pilots association for encouraging similar moves during its 1997 dispute will chill any such thought.
The pilot program is "trying to shift the conversation from opinion, judgment and surface-level conversations around a checklist to deeper-level conversation," Ms. Leo said.
The precipitating event in this model is usually an active event -- called an unsafe act -- which is the direct cause of the accident, such as a judgment error by a poorly trained airplane pilot.
