Dr. Alan Diehl has held important positions with aircraft manufacturers and the National Transportation Safety Board, the FAA and the US Air Force. Dr. Diehl was also celebrated for exposing mistakes by government officials that led to deadly accidents. He holds degrees in Psychology, Management and Engineering as well as an Airline Transport Pilot license. His first book, “Silent Knights: Blowing the Whistle on Military Accidents and Their Cover-Ups” was widely acclaimed and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His latest is “Air Safety Investigators: Using Science to Save Lives One Crash At a Time.”

“The (Boeing) marketeers overruled the (Boeing) engineers.” Dr. Alan Diehl, aviation crash expert.