Investigators also found that a watertight door in the engine room was left open and unsecured when the crew abandoned the ship. Had it been closed as required, flooding could have been contained, and the damage could have been limited. The NTSB concluded that the main causes of the grounding...
NTSB creates post-hoc investigation reports which contain raw text narratives of their investigation and their corresponding concise event sequences. Classification models are developed for passenger air carriers, that take either an observed sequence of events or the corresponding raw text narrative as ...
Jennifer Homendy, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, gave updates to the media on Saturday following the deadly plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia.
Can NTSB reports be used in court?The federal law makes it clear that the NTSB reports are not intended to be used in civil litigation, but rather, the NTSB is to do its investigation independent of any potential entanglement in any lawsuit.Why are recommendations crafted in accident reports?
On March 8, United Airlines flight reports UA2477 landed and the Boeing 737 Max exited the taxiway into a grassy area. NTSB claims the left main landing gear (MLG) departed the paved surface and contacted a concrete structure that was recessed into the ground, resulting in its separation. ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) todayreleased a preliminary reportregarding a Tesla Model S that crashed in Florida, killing two and injuring one. The report states that, after extinguishing a fire that consumed the vehicle, the battery again caught fire while being loaded for remov...
1(a) We based our preliminary findings on information from the publicly released preliminary accident reports. (b) While Boeing uses the term “uncommanded MCAS function” in its assessment documents, in this report, we are using the term “unintended ...
The completeness of the NTSB reports varied; Several reports stated that stall speed depends on bank angle, ignoring the real factor, the G-load of the turn; The term “stall/spin” was sometimes used as a default causal factor; Go arounds were sometimes classified as landing events, but ...
After reviewing the facts and the TPD and NTSB reports I have drawn the following conclusions beyond a reasonable degree of scientific certainty4: 1. About the reports: The TPD used incorrect methods to measure sight distance and to determine PRT; ...
No recommendations are made (as sadly common in both rotorcraft and non-fatal NTSB accident reports). The 2012NATORTOTechnical Report TR–HFM–162 Rotary-Wing Brownout Mitigation: Technologies and Trainingdescribes brownout as “the condition where there is little or no out-the-cockpit window visi...