It WAS NOT released to everyone......just those with a need to know or had a dog in the fight if you will.
This gets back to what I was saying in the B-2 crash thread......
There are alomst certainly lessons learned from every mishap that could be learned by ALL of Naval Aviation. Why do we deliberately stovepipe mishap reports into communities who "appear to have a dog in the fight"?
I can see delaying the report until after the JAG comes out to protect the privledged info from being used in a criminal/punishment capacity, but other than that, why all of the secrecy?
All that leads to is lack of learning and ignorant speculation by everybody else.
I can't tell you the number of times I've heard somebody spout off about the cause of some mishap or another and completely misquote/misrepresent the findings of the AMB. Why? They never read the source document and the people listening to him couldn't readily get access to it to check for themselves.
Bad information is worse than no information.
If we want to learn from our mistakes and prevent them from reoccurring, we need to be more "open kimono" about our mishaps.