An interim report released on January 20th by the Return to Flight Task Group, which was set up as an independent monitor of NASA's efforts to implement the recommendations of the board of enquiry that investigated the loss of Columbia, said that the agency was making progress.
And fearing the court would rule in favour of activist Terry Crawford-Browne, who campaigned for the government to establish a judicial commission of inquiry into corruption in South Africa's controversial arms procurement deal, Mr Zuma set up his own board of enquiry with his own terms of reference.
The board of enquiry concluded that the crew had become disorientated due to "white-out" conditions.
An Admiralty Board of Enquiry convened between 18 and 24 October to establish the circumstances under which the anchorage had been penetrated.
The board of enquiry was unable to determine the exact cause but it may have been the forward-swivelling upper boost actuator jamming.
The first formal board of enquiry into the loss, presided over by Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, reported on 2 June, less than a fortnight after the loss.
Doubt first arose as a result of eyewitness testimony that the explosion that destroyed Hood originated near the mainmast, well forward of the aft magazines (for example, the sketch shown prepared for the second board of enquiry by Captain Leach of Prince of Wales).
In 1887, an enquiry by the Fishery Board of Scotland came to the conclusion that beam trawlers did damage other fishers' gear, and that immature fish were being killed in large numbers [29].
In response to our enquiry, our institutional review board (Oxfordshire Research Ethics Committee) advised informed consent and ethical approval was not required.
He returned to NASA twice to serve on boards of enquiry, the first into the near-disaster of Apollo 13, the second into the disintegration of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
