Yeah it's absolutely amazing. Because there's so few accidents now, and so few that need serious professional NTSB analysis on, I've heard the FAA is trying to

Yeah it's absolutely amazing. Because there's so few accidents now, and so few that need serious professional NTSB analysis on, I've heard the FAA is trying to turn to self-reporting on accidents to help build out the picture of aircraft failure modes. They've apparently established a complex system of self-reporting combined with deidentification in order to encourage people to provide data. http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:43:0::NO::P43_REGION_VAR:1 http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:43:0::NO::P43_REGI...