Jury did it again

Dave S wrote:

Ok.. the report is heresay.. but what about the individual testimony of
the NTSB investigator who generated the report?

Well, one problem is that the NTSB personel don't usually do much on their own.
If they want to know if there were problems with the engine, for example, they
will call in experts from Continental or Lycoming to check it out. In some cases,
judges have ruled that evidence inadmissible because the manufacturer's experts
testimony would have been "prejudiced." Even if the judge allows Parker Hannifin
techicians to testify as to the reasons why they believe the pumps were working,
and even if a mechanic would say "yep, that proves they were working", the jury
members are likely to regard that testimony as uneducated opinion or possibly
lies.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."