11 A helicopter? Miranda usually enjoyed a crash investigation. She was fairly certain that was the correct emotion. Not the devastation, of course, but the puzzle. When something went wrong with an airplane, there was a chance to find a better solution for all future airplanes. Airplanes. Yes, the NTSB spread its four hundred personnel across five modes of transportation. She didn’t care about highway, railroad, or pipeline mishaps. Maritime accidents were intriguing on a strictly intellectual basis. Aviation was her area. But there were at least as many subdivisions within that as there were lead investigators within the NTSB’s aeronautics division: gliders, ultra-light, general aviation, commercial aviation, military, experimental, and rotorcraft. She’d always felt unclear wheth

