The NTSB has issued about 13, 000 safety recommendations in its history, the vast majority of which have been adopted in whole or in part by the entities to which they were directed.

Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.

In addition, the NTSB has assisted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in its investigations of both the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttle disasters, assisted the Department of Justice during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack investigations, and assisted the U. S. military in its investigation of the aircraft that crashed in the former Yugoslavia that took the lives of more than 30 Americans, including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

The NTSB has since finished its investigation of the accident.

it is an FAA requirement that the recording duration is a minimum of thirty minutes, but the NTSB has long recommended that it should be at least two hours.

Airbus has offered an optional fix, which the US NTSB has suggested to the US FAA as mandatory, but the FAA has yet to make it a requirement.

Air Sunshine has a slightly better than average safety record between 1997 and 2004 per the NTSB.

As the helicopter was manufactured in the United States, the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) has taken part into the investigation.

The NTSB is also in charge of investigating cases of hazardous materials releases that occur during transportation.

The Civil Aeronautics Board ( the predecessor of the NTSB ) was the government agency charged with investigating airliner accidents, during that era.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating.

The National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) is an independent U. S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents and railroad accidents.

The NTSB was established in 1967 as the federal government's primary accident investigation agency for all modes of transportation – aviation, highway, rail, marine and pipeline.

Nicholas Stix of Middle American News recounted the mutually contradictory theories that the NTSB had floated immediately following the crash, the statements made by retired fire fighters and police officers who had witnessed the crash, and the history of similar crashes, and concluded that the agency was frantically seeking to calm a public whose faith in commercial aviation had hit rock bottom.

Actions of flight attendants in emergencies have long been credited in saving lives ; in the United States, the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) and other aviation authorities view flight attendants as essential for safety, and are thus required on Part 121 aircraft operations.

* The National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) investigates all aviation accidents in the United States, and certain major railroad and other accidents.

In 2010, the NTSB published a study done on 8, 000 general aviation light aircraft.

The American transportation authority NTSB reports one case in which sexual activity is at least partly responsible for an aviation accident.

Not all pilots abide by this rule, and approximately 40 % of the NTSB fatal general aviation accident reports list continuation of flight into conditions for which the pilot was not qualified as a cause.

She also furthered development of the NTSB Academy as an international resource to enhance aviation safety and accident investigations.

When requested, the NTSB will assist the military and foreign governments with accident investigation.

The NTSB is normally the lead organization in the investigation of a transportation accident within its sphere.

For certain accidents, due to resource limitations, the Board will ask the FAA to collect the factual information at the scene of the accident ; the NTSB bases its report on that information.

The NTSB may assist in incident or accident investigations occurring outside the United States under certain circumstances.

While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash.

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

NTSB investigation ruled the accident was probably due to low fuel.

The NTSB accident report commended " the exemplary manner in which the flight attendant briefed the passengers and handled the emergency ".

The NTSB in their after accident reported noted, " The performance of the flight attendants during the emergency was exceptional and probably contributed to the success of the emergency evacuation.

The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the accident was Reid's " improper decision to take off into deteriorating weather conditions ( including turbulence, gusty winds, and an advancing thunderstorm and associated precipitation ) when the airplane was overweight and when the density altitude was higher than he was accustomed to, resulting in a stall caused by failure to maintain airspeed.

This was supported by the NTSB, which determined that the pressure induced by the intense media attention was a " contributing factor " in the accident.

Congress, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) investigated the crash, and found it to be an accident caused by crew error.

The official NTSB accident report lists the probable cause as " The pilot's intentional flight into the ground for the purpose of suicide while impaired by alcohol.

The NTSB never determined the cause of the accident and the resort sold the airline.

The NTSB report showed that the plane had several instances of maintenance work related to cabin pressure in the months leading up to the accident.

* NTSB accident report of the helicopter accident in 1977

The NTSB attributed the accident to lack of the ability to detect microbursts aboard aircraft-the radar equipment aboard aircraft at the time was unable to detect wind changes, only thunderstorms.

Three years after the accident the NTSB was compelled to re-open the investigation into the crash, after submissions were received that the person who was suspected of driving the " unauthorized vehicle " had actually left the airport about fifteen minutes before the aircraft crashed.

According to the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) accident report, they learned that the winds were changing direction and that a wind shear alert had sounded on the airport due to a thunderstorm nearby.

* The United States National Transportation Safety Board, which usually investigates air disasters, issued a press release stating that the NTSB would assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and that the FBI would be " the lead investigative agency ".

The four-year NTSB investigation concluded with the approval of the Aircraft Accident Report on August 23, 2000, ending the most extensive, complex, and costly air disaster investigation in United States history.

The NTSB would later credit this training as valuable toward the success of United 232's crew in handling their emergency.

* NTSB Accident report of United Airlines Flight 232

In 2006, the United States National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) concluded that many air ambulances crashes were avoidable, eventually leading to the improvement of government standards and CAMTS accreditation.

* April 1 – The United States National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) begins work.

Representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the United States Coast Guard, and Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr .' s Office of Emergency Services responded to the scene.

* United States National Transportation Safety Board ( August 5, 1999 ), NTSB to hold public hearing on Bourbonnais train accident.

Representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the United States Coast Guard, and Virginia Governor's Office of Emergency Services responded to the scene.

United States President Bill Clinton declared Puerto Rico a disaster area, which ensured the receipt of federal aid to help the victims, including the NTSB which launched an investigation.

In 2004 the United States National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) released a report that blamed the accident, which released a cloud of anhydrous ammonia over Minot, North Dakota, on poor trackwork and inspections, a claim which CP is disputing.

The safety issues stemming from the incident were of such concern that the United States National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) issued safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ).

United States ' National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) and French Bureau d ' Enquêtes et d ' Analyses pour la Sécurité de l ' Aviation Civile ( BEA ) also took part.

:*-Initial reports from the United States National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) on Saturday's derailment of a Metra commuter train in Chicago indicate that the train involved was travelling too fast for a track speed restriction.