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Head-on collision on UP's Golden State Route
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<p>[quote user="Murray"I disagree.</p> <p>A conclusion based upon fact of an official investigation is not and cannot be an assumption. It is just that...a CONCLUSION.</p> <p> If that were not the case, then what is the point of official investigations and analysis of accidents?[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can understand the point that an investigation reaches a conclusion, as does a trial of the facts in reaching a “decision.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People can be convicted on circumstantial evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say that the evidence that the crew in the Iowa crash were sleeping is circumstantial, rather than proven fact. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If an investigation is compelled to reach a conclusion, no matter how comprehensive or convincing the evidence is, then a conclusion will be reached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But whether or not the conclusion is factual or theoretical, is beside the point of the conclusion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conclusion would stand on its own regardless of what was proven fact and/or what was assumed during the investigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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