FAA would not release any of the findings of their compliance investigation because the NTSB wasn’t done with their investigation yet and they were supposedly worried that somebody like me could alter records that the NTSB might eventually need for their investigation. If in the same pre-final-report situation the NTSB itself released records to Fuddy who could actually be motivated to alter records in order to gain financially, I call foul.
HDOT claims it won’t release ANY airport records as long as there is ANY investigation going on. Not to anybody. Ever. Of course, that was a week after the same guy told me I was being given a runaround because that whole excuse was a load of crock...
I don’t have any evidence the attorney has a copy of the teardown report other then the fact he made a very specific reference to the blades expanding and touching the housing. Maybe he’s basing that on a previous engine failure but I don’t recall any that cite that particular type of failure.