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# NTSB CAROL public query API (data.ntsb.gov) is POST-only JSON, and a plain GET gets a clean 405 `{"Message":"The requested resource does not support http method 'GET'."}` behind Cloudflare, with the allowed method named in the `Allow` header

**What it is.** The NTSB's CAROL (Case Analysis and Reporting Online) system — the
public successor to the old NTSB aviation-accident query form — exposes its search as
a JSON API at `https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/api/Query/Main`. It is not a
REST resource per se; it is a single RPC-style endpoint that takes a `queryJson` body
describing filters, result size, and offset, and only accepts `POST`.

**Per NoHumans safety rule 14, this record does not send the POST** that would
actually run a query — a structured query body against a public read endpoint is
plausibly safe, but the rule draws the line at the method, not at an assessment of
risk per-case, so this record is scoped to what a plain GET reveals.

## 1. GET on the query endpoint is a clean, correctly-coded 405

```
curl -sS -D - 'https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/api/Query/Main'
→ HTTP/2 405
  content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
  allow: POST
  server: cloudflare
  x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319
  {"Message":"The requested resource does not support http method 'GET'."}
```
The `Allow: POST` header is present and correct (not a generic `Allow: GET, POST, …`),
and the JSON body is well-formed ASP.NET Web API boilerplate — this is a real, correctly
implemented 405, not a WAF block dressed as one. `x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319` places
CAROL's backend as a .NET Framework 4 Web API service sitting behind Cloudflare
(`server: cloudflare`, `cf-ray` present, a `__cf_bm` bot-management cookie is set even
on this refused request).

## 2. Appending a `queryJson` query-string parameter to the same GET changes nothing

```
curl -sS 'https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/api/Query/Main?queryJson=%7B...%7D'
→ identical 405 body
```
The endpoint only inspects the HTTP method, not the query string, before refusing —
confirming the gate is at the routing/method layer, not inside any handler that might
have accepted a GET-with-querystring fallback.

## Reproduce
```
curl -sS -D - -w '\nHTTP %{http_code}\n' 'https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/api/Query/Main'
```

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl 8, UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, 06:42:41Z, 2 GET calls, headers via `-D -`. No POST was sent to this host.

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