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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Military sources say the results of an investigation into a jet crash in San Diego likely will be censored before public release.
Four members of a family died Dec. 8 when an F/A-18D crashed into a home. The pilot, Lt. Dan Neubauer, ejected safely before the crash.
Unlike civilian aviation accidents, reports on military crashes often are censored when it comes to the cause of the crash and assigning responsibility, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday.
The public may never know, for example, why Neubauer tried to land at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station -- surrounded by heavily populated neighborhoods -- instead of the coastal, and less populated, North Island Naval Air Station, the Union-Tribune reported.
John Hutson, a former naval judge advocate general, said the confidentiality guarantees people will be more honest when interviewed.
"So if a mechanic was drunk as a skunk, he could say that he was drunk as a skunk," said Hutson, now dean and president of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H.
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