Following any airplane accident in the U.S., safety investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) immediately begin searching for the aircraft's black boxes. Answers, unfortunately, don't always come fast though. It took investigators nearly two years to find the black box fr...
Aircraft-accident dockets are collaboratively written and summarise the circumstances and outcome of aviation mishaps. Those issued online by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are addressed to a broad mixed readership that may be emotionally affected by the facts reported if death...
Rail operator Norfolk Southern and the NTSB haven’t publicly answered one of the big questions about the Feb. 3 derailment, however: Exactly when was the crew alerted to a mechanical issue with a rail car axle — the suspected cause — and did they respond appropriately? A wayside defect d...
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filter when he botches a landing – he might have to admit that some things take a lot of practice. That proudly-independent businessman will soon find out that flyingis a team sport, one that requires good instructors, air traffic controllers and fellow pilots to make the system work ...
scenarios were considered and dismissed by the NTSB. There simply is no evidence of either. Each are [sic] inconsistent with the physical, radar, and eyewitness evidence. Because of this, you will not likely find any first-hand sources from within the NTSB investigation to support either ...
After presenting a mid-air prevention seminar at more than a dozen locations around the country, I’d like to highlight some observations and issues that came up during our discussions. First, we’ll review what the regulations say, then we’ll break the
He then struggles valiantly to reach the nearby runway, even as the plane makes a slow spiral turn into the ground. After the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determines he shut down and feathered the propeller of the engine that was still functioning perfectly....
Weaknesses in safety culture are increasingly being identified in accident investigation reports as a critical precursor to accidents. This not because there is necessarily a widespread decline in organisational safety cultures, but because investigators are now looking more closely at organisations, how th...