Safety
Safety Group Attacks Prosecutorial Overreach
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has sharply criticized the interference of prosecutors in ongoing accident investigations in Italy and France, warning t

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has sharply criticized the interference of prosecutors in ongoing accident investigations in Italy and France, warning that such interference hampers efforts to improve aviation safety and prevent similar accidents in the future.

Reports of prosecutorial interference in the investigations in Italy and France are troubling, said William Voss, president and CEO of the FSF. “We simply cannot allow these obstacles to keep us from learning and acting quickly after a crash,” he added.
The safety investigations of a Cessna Citation accident in Rome on February 7 and the crash of an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 off the coast of France on Nov. 27, 2008, were delayed because law enforcement authorities seized vital evidence before safety investigators could examine it.

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