It is impossible to establish a “safety culture” with the threat of criminalization hanging over employees’ heads.

Citing “a built-in conflict of interest” in the Brazilian military’s accident investigation report for the 2006 collision of a Boeing 737 airliner and an Embraer Legacy 600, one of the attorneys representing the business jet pilots against manslaughter charges claims the document “manufactures and exaggerates liability on the part of the pilots.”

General Electric Aviation’s much-heralded eCore advanced gas generator may see its introductory application not in an airliner engine but in a business jet powerplant — the long-awaited “10K,” or 10,000-pound-thrust class turbofan the company has promised for several years amid an aura of super secrecy.