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	Reauthorization of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NTSB is headed by five board members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
		When the NTSB is notified of a major accident, it launches a go-team that varies in size depending on the severity of the accident and the complexity of the issues involved.
		Century (AIR 21) directed the NTSB to study the safety of public aircraft, which are exempted from certain aviation safety regulations, and to compare the safety of public aircraft to civil aircraft.
	www.house.gov /transportation/aviation/03-14-02/03-14-02memo.html (4181 words)

	Plane & Pilot Magazine \| NTSB Debriefer: The Silent Killer
		The recommendation revealed that the NTSB examined its own accident database and found that over the last 30 years, there were 125 accidents or incidents involving muffler failure on single-engine, piston airplanes that resulted in 42 fatalities and 27 serious injuries.
		The NTSB’s metallurgist found that the inlet end of the muffler case on the left side was crushed and contained a large crack that extended approximately 2⁄3 of the muffler circumference.
		The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the accident was an exhaust gas leak because of inadequate maintenance, which resulted in carbon-monoxide poisoning, and the incapacitation of the pilot.
	www.planeandpilotmag.com /content/2004/oct/ntsb_silent_killer.html (1527 words)

	NTSB Investigation Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NTSB regulations specifically exclude lawyers for the victims and representatives of insurance companies from participating in the NTSB Investigation (49 C.F.R. The NTSB has advised Congress that it is important that adversarial interests which motivate litigation be kept out of the investigative process.
		There is no way that the NTSB can prevent the airline party representative or the manufacturer party representative from sharing the details of the technical investigation with their colleagues, who report to lawyers and insurers, back at the home office of their respective companies.
		NTSB Regulations allow lawyers to take the depositions of the NTSB Investigators, but the investigators are not permitted to reveal their analysis or express opinions in the deposition.
	www.aviationlawcorp.com /content/ntsbinvest.html (4090 words)

	Quinton & Petix - NTSB Reports
		The NTSB investigator's statements of opinion regarding technical matters should never be accepted as having the same degree of reliability as the statements of fact which the investigator gained by direct observation.
		Normally, if specifically asked, the NTSB investigator will readily state that he is not competent to give an opinion about a technical question outside his field of expertise and he or she will make it clear that the opinions expressed on technical questions are those of the experts with which he or she has consulted.
		NTSB reports of aircraft accidents are prepared for the purpose of finding and fixing blame for the subject accident with the objective of preventing future accidents.
	www.quintonpetix.com /ntsbrep.htm (2630 words)

	Salon News \| Crash course in ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The NTSB commands a rare level of respect among government agencies.
		NTSB investigates over 2,000 air accidents, the overwhelming majority of which are "general aviation" events (private pilots flying a Cessna, for example).
		She testified that NTSB personnel are overworked (52 hours per week compared to the industry average of 42 hours), undertrained (40 percent of the NTSB's most experienced employees reported they're not training at all) and underpaid (RAND's survey deemed NTSB's salary structure "not competitive.").
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/12/06/ntsb/index.html (1145 words)

	Backlogged Investigators Pass on Small-Plane Accident Sites
		The NTSB did not send an accident investigator to a June 2002 crash in Meridian, Miss., after a pilot flying a Piper aircraft reported engine trouble, declared an emergency and crashed in a field short of the airport.
		The NTSB sent an investigator to that accident, which was caused by a failure of the same crankshaft gear bolt.
		The NTSB said it is "unfair" to blame the second Piper accident on the NTSB's decision not to send an investigator to the other accident.
	www.iasa.com.au /folders/Safety_Issues/FAA_Inaction/ntsbgoesfewer.html (938 words)

	CNN.com - NTSB blames co-pilot for EgyptAir crash - March 21, 2002
		The NTSB said there was no way the airplane's initial downward movements could have resulted from mechanical failure.
		But the Egyptian aviation board said the investigation was flawed from the outset "when NTSB investigators rushed to judgment in reaching conclusions even before the aircraft wreckage was retrieved from the ocean floor," according to a statement released Friday.
		An analyst who covered the EgyptAir crash for Aviation Week said the NTSB had not proved its case, relying too heavily on data provided by the aircraft's manufacturer, Boeing, to test whether mechanical failure was a possibility.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/03/21/ntsb.egypt.air/index.html?related (656 words)

	Reauthorization of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the NTSB investigates transportation accidents in all modes, the Board’s broadest investigative mandate is in the aviation mode.
		The NTSB is statutorily required to determine the probable cause of all civil aviation accidents.
		The NTSB has determined through a human capital forecast conducted in 2006 that 475 is the minimum number of full time employees needed to effectively and efficiently meet the mission and support efforts that are expected of the Board.
	www.house.gov /transportation/aviation/03-08-06/03-08-06memo.html (2168 words)

	NTSB Aviation Accident Reports, Airplane Aircraft Accident Report
		NTSB reports of accidents in brief or summary format are issued for all aviation accidents and for all non-major railroad, highway, pipeline and marine accidents investigated by or for the NTSB, for which probable cause is determined.
		The NTSB may consider matters in reaching the probable cause determination, which could be excluded from evidence in civil litigation, because hundreds of years of jurisprudence has taught us that certain information is unreliable.Field investigations result in a factual report, from which the investigator recommends a probable cause determination to the Board.
		NTSB probable cause determinations are not admissible in evidence [49 USC 1441(e)].
	www.helicoptercrashes.com /NTSB_report/index.html (1253 words)

	Safety Task Force [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]
		The nature of an NTSB investigation is such that by regulation, there are no adverse parties, or opposing sides, and the investigation is strictly for the purpose of fact finding.
		When the NTSB conducts an investigation, either major or regional, it designates one member of their team sent to the accident scene to be the Investigator-in-Charge or IIC.
		The NTSB issues what it feels the evidence shows to be the probable causes in all accidents, with particular attention being given to the major accident investigations.
	www.ble.org /departments/stf/ntsb.asp (1487 words)

	The NTSB Failed Wellstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The NTSB further found that the navigational beacon at EVM did not play a role in the crash,12 despite concerns that were earlier reported in the media.
		Instead, the NTSB pointed the finger at the air charter company, Aviation Charter, for failures relating to paperwork17 which the company’s legal advice indicated was within the requirements of all regulations,18 and for failing to implement crew training modules relating to coordination and teamwork,19 which it had no obligation to provide,
		At the time of the NTSB’s investigations, she had a lawyer investigating the incident in order to “clear his name.”111 However, we know little else of his connections with the military; the NTSB did not pursue the question.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/070605_wellstone.shtml (5538 words)

	Worldandnation: NTSB chief takes job with ties to Chrysler
		As NTSB chairman for the past seven years, Hall, 59, was often the agency's chief spokesman on airplane crashes and auto safety.
		Elaine Weinstein, now the head of the NTSB's office of safety recommendations and accomplishments, said she and the former director, Barry Sweedler, initiated the idea to praise DaimlerChrysler.
		Some inside the NTSB felt he put too much emphasis on assisting families after plane crashes instead of the agency's primary mission of investigating accidents.
	www.sptimes.com /News/031601/Worldandnation/NTSB_chief_takes_job_.shtml (1180 words)

	National Transportation Safety Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a U.S. government independent organization responsible for investigation of accidents involving aviation, highway, marine, pipelines and railroads in the United States.
		It is charged by the U.S. Congress to investigate every civil aviation accident in the United States, as well as significant accidents in other modes of transportation (such as the Big Bayou Canot train disaster near Mobile, Alabama).
		The NTSB is normally the lead organization in the investigation of a transportation accident within its sphere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NTSB (617 words)

	CNN.com - NTSB: Most crashes survivable - Aug 2, 2005
		As a result, the public may perceive that most air carrier accidents are not survivable," the NTSB wrote in a March 2001 report.
		The NTSB said it studied aircraft accident survivability to address that mistaken belief and identify factors that could further increase survivability.
		According to the NTSB, there were 568 airline accidents from 1983 through 2000, 71 of which resulted in at least one fatality.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/08/02/survivable.crashes (365 words)

	NTSB faults Pentagon in '04 Afghan crash - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An NTSB statement said the agency is "concerned that the unique risks presented by operations in remote overseas locations have not been adequately addressed for civilian contractors that provide air transportation services to the U.S. military."
		The NTSB also noted the company's failure to require crews to fly specific routes and follow safety regulations.
		But the NTSB said it found no evidence that the military had tried to enforce the rule.
	usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-12-04-ntsb-afghan-crash_x.htm?csp=34 (478 words)

	NTSB
		The NTSB is an independent Federal agency that is responsible for investigating every civil aviation accident in the U.S. Established on April 1, 1967, the NTSB is also responsible for the upkeep of the government’s database regarding civil aviation accidents and conducting special studies of transportation safety issues of national significance.
		The NTSB operates by trying to prevent future aviation accidents from occurring by allowing full industry participation in the investigations, addressing real world problems, issuing safety recommendations rather than regulations, and distributes its reports and findings to a large audience.
		The NTSB is available every day, year round, every hour and will investigate accidents in any area that needs to be investigated.
	www.airline-crash-aviation-lawyer.com /html/ntsb.html (480 words)

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		Plaintiff is a resident of the State of California, County of Los Angeles with a mailing address of 18254 Coastline Drive, Malibu, CA 90265-5704, and lives within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for Central California.
		Since the zoom-climb was one of NTSB conclusions, all of the parties to the investigation such as ALPA and TWA and Boeing should have participated in that conclusion, and the report of that group should have been a part of the public record.
		The relief sought by Plaintiff is the method used by the NTSB to calculate the zoom-climb of TWA800 after the nose was blown off in its fatal accident on July 17, 1996.
	twa800.com /letters/lahr-4-2-02.htm (1243 words)

	WorldNetDaily: NBC's Robert Hager – NTSB prostitute?
		NTSB success at selling virtual garbage as credible theory in the TWA Flight 800 crash, July 17, 1996, gave the NTSB confidence that its propaganda, placed in the correct hands, could be fearlessly used to contaminate the mind of the American masses.
		The NTSB made no attempt to interview and obtain comprehensive statements from the witnesses and attempt to use those statements to develop an initial investigative hypothesis.
		The NTSB did not release photos and a debris field map showing where the first parts of the aircraft rested on the Bay floor under only a few feet of salt water.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41155 (796 words)

	The NTSB — To Be or Not to Be? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Furthermore, internal NTSB working documents generated early in the search process and now in my possession (posted at twa800.com) clearly state that pump was found before the dredging operation began.
		Knowing that I would be a potentially hostile witness to the NTSB, Chairman Duncan of the House Aviation Subcommittee invited me to testify, May 6, 1999 in hearings he was conducting into the continuation of NTSB out-year funding.
		My testimony recommended, based the NTSB’s failed investigation of Flight 800, and in the presence of Chairman Hall, that he and other political appointees in the NTSB be fired for cause, and the NTSB be reorganized and manned solely by civilian and military aviation professionals.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/7/16/211505 (1932 words)

	NTSB Regulations affecting Ballooning
		NTSB Accident Synopses and Database - Summaries for most of the aviation accidents the NTSB has investigated since 1983.
		The NTSB serves as the court of appeals for any airman or mechanic when certificate action is taken by the FAA or civil penalties are assessed.
		Reporting An Accident to the NTSB - Federal regulations require operators to notify the NTSB immediately of aviation accidents and certain incidents.
	www.blastvalve.com /Regulations/NTSB (202 words)

	CNN.com - NTSB investigates 767 elevator problem - March 28, 2001
		But NTSB officials said there was no apparent connection between the two incidents.
		The EgyptAir 767, meanwhile, rivets on two of the three bell cranks in the right elevator were sheared in one direction, and the rivets on the remaining bell crank were sheared in the opposite direction.
		The NTSB, meanwhile, says it expects to turn over a draft report of the EgyptAir crash to EgyptAir officials within the next two weeks.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/US/03/28/ntsb.767.elevators/index.html?related (450 words)

	cbs4denver.com - NTSB Suspects Icing In Ebersol Crash
		NTSB members met to decide the probable cause of the Nov. 28, 2004, crash that killed 14-year-old Teddy Ebersol, the pilot and a flight attendant.
		The NTSB has repeatedly asked the FAA to issue recommendations on checking for ice on wings.
		NTSB investigators said Tuesday they had repeatedly warned pilots to check for ice on the wings, even if it wasn't visible, by running their hands along the surface.
	cbs4denver.com /topstories/local_story_122104818.html (433 words)

	DMORT NTSB Page
		In 1996, the NTSB was assigned the role of integrating the resources of the Federal Government with those of local and state authorities and the airlines to meet the needs of aviation disaster victims and their families.
		The NTSB fulfilled this essential role through its Office of Family Affairs.
		In July 2002 the NTSB changed the name to the Office of Transportation Disaster Assistance to better reflect the broad range of the Office’s duties, and the extension of its services in many cases to all modes of transportation covered by the NTSB.
	www.dmort.org /DNPages/DMORTNTSB.htm (185 words)

	NTSB Quiz
		What period of time must a person be hospitalized before an injury may be defined by the NTSB as a "serious injury"?
		Within what time period should the nearest NTSB field office be notified when an aircraft is involved in an accident which results in substantial damage?
		When is an operator of an aircraft, which has been involved in an incident, required to submit a report to the nearest field office of the NTSB?
	www.sheffield.com /FAAKT/NTSBversion-4quiz.html (241 words)

	NTSB wants tougher driver medical standards
		The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that commercial drivers pass tougher physical exams, including more thorough tests for controlled substances, before being allowed behind the wheel.
		According to NTSB’s report, the driver had a history of heart and kidney problems, and had been in the hospital as recently as seven hours before the fatal accident.
		Those who perform medical examinations - doctors, chiropractors, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants - may not have the knowledge of commercial driving needed to determine whether a medical condition poses a danger.
	fleetowner.com /news/fleet_ntsb_wants_tougher/index.html (377 words)

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