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Source: www.injuryboard.com --- 48 days ago
The Honorable Mark V. Rosenker, Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board was the key note speaker at the annual meeting of the Greater New Jersey Motorcoach Association yesterday. In his address, Mr. Rosenker made mention of several serious bus crashes that the Board is either currently investigating or has investigated in the past and made recommendations to the motorcoach industry and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Greater New Jersey Motorcoach Association has as its members bus owners and operators from the New Jersey area whose purpose is to "promote the betterment and welfare of our industry, members and the objectives of the the association" and to take "proactive steps in promoting safety in the motorcoach industry by sponsoring safety workshops for bus drivers, driver excellence award programs and inspection workshops." Mr. Rosenker spoke ofa bus accident which occurred after a bus driver neglected to move to the center lane and struck the lower part of an overpass in the outside lane while talking on a cell phone headset. The NTSB recommended that bus drivers of commercial motorcoaches or school busesshould not use cell phones will driving, except in emergencies. During the evacuation of the elderly from the path of hurricane Rita near Dallas, TX, a bus caught fire. The Board determined that most of the elderly were not ambulatory and unfortunately twenty-three of them died on the bus. ... Source: lawboat.blogspot.com --- 16 days ago
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker today reminded all Americans that the upcoming Independence Day Weekend should be a time for celebration with friends and family, not a time to visit the emergency room because someone didn't take prudent and easy precautions when traveling.... -- When engaging in recreational boating, a popular pastime during the summer months, wear a personal flotation device (PFD) and, again, do not operate a boat if you have consumed alcohol. National Transportation Safety Board Washington, DC 20594 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2, 2008 SB-08-31 ...
Source: onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com --- 14 days ago
“An accident that didn’t have to happen.” That’s how Chairman Mark Rosenker of the National Transportation Safety Board described the March 2, 2007 bus crash that killed seven people and injured 28 on an Atlanta interstate. Today, the NTSB issued its final report on the incident. That report cites three major factors as probable causes of [...] ... Source: www.startribune.com --- 91 days ago
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WASHINGTON D.C. (July 1, 2008) — National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker today honored SAFE KIDS Worldwide and General Motors Corporation with its Safety Leadership Award for their efforts to ensure the proper installation of more than one million child restraint systems since the program began in 1997. ... Source: www.charlotte.com --- 40 days ago
Federal regulators have ordered the immediate inspection of throttles on small personal jets manufactured by Eclipse Aviation Corp. after one made an emergency landing in Chicago. In response to an urgent recommendation from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order late Thursday requiring inspection of all Eclipse 500 aircraft throttles and replacement of malfunctioning ones before each plane is flown again. The FAA order also requires that operators immediately insert into the aircraft's flight manual new emergency procedures for dual engine control failure. The FAA said the Chicago incident had shown that the throttles for the plane's two engines could remain stuck at full power if pushed forward with enough force, depriving the pilot of the ability to control the plane's speed. "The Eclipse 500 is still a new aircraft model, with some 200 having been delivered," NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said Thursday. He said the agency's inquiry into the accident revealed a safety issue that "needs immediate attention." The safety board said the plane in Chicago developed its problem after only 238 hours of flight. "Had it not been for the resourcefulness of the pilots," good weather and the plane's proximity to Midway Airport, where it was landing, "the successful completion of this flight would have been unlikely," the safety board advised the FAA. The two pilots and two pass ... Source: www.kansascity.com --- 91 days ago
A Democratic congressman on Wednesday urged the National Transportation Safety Board to reverse its decision not to hold an interim public hearing on last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis. ... Source: www.ntsb.gov --- 68 days ago
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its investigation of the March 2, 2007 bus accident on I-95 in Atlanta, GA that killed 7 people, including the bus driver, and seriously injured seven of the passengers. The bus was carrying the Bluffton University, Ohion, baseball team when it drove through an intersection on the ramp to an overpass, crashed through a barrier and landed on I-95 19 feet below. The NTSB has determined that "the probable cause" of the accident was that the bus driver confused the high occupany (HOV) exit only ramp for an HOV through lane. However, the Board said that the Georgia Department of transportation also contributed to the accident due to the inadequate signage differentiating the two types of HOV lanes. "This accident demonstrates the need for clear and consistent highway signage and traffic devices across the U.S. interstate system, in order to provide reliable guidance to all motorists on our nation's highways," said Mark V. Rosenker, NTSB Chairman. The NTSB also restated recommendations it has made regarding changes in the bus passenger safety and recording devices such as the "black box" on commercial airliners. The Board believes many lives could be saved with bus safety devices and training could be improved with the recording devices. Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Sandy Grinnell, Staff Contributor ...
Source: www.flightglobal.com --- 40 days ago
The US National Transportation Safety Board is commending FAA for its fast response to a request by the board to address dual engine control failures on the Eclipse 500 jet. Late yesterday the board called for inspections and regulatory action for all Eclipse 500 light jets, after one aircraft, tail number N612KB, experienced a dual-engine control failure on 5 June. Pushing the throttles forward to the power stops resulted in uncontrollable thrust at maximum levels. Shutting down one engine, however, caused the other engine to roll back to idle, forcing the crew to declare an in-flight emergency and to land at Chicago Midway Airport. "This incident demonstrated a technical safety-of-flight issue that we believe needs immediate attention," says NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker. The NTSB issued an urgent recommendation for the US FAA to require inspections of all Eclipse 500 throttle quadrant parts. Repl ... Source: www.moldova.org --- 42 days ago
Recent incidents involving sleepy pilots show a need to address pilot fatigue and the length of pilots' shifts, the U.S. federal transportation watchdog said.The National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend that federal aviation regulators and airlines use fatigue studies to overhaul rules governing how long pilots can fly legally, USA Today reported. Current law permits pilots to work up to 16 hours a day, including up to eight hours behind the controls.It's an insidious issue, NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said. Many times the pilots themselves don't recognize that they are fatigued when they get into that cockpit.One instance the NTSB cited was when two airline pilots feel asleep over Hawaii in February, flying past their destination toward open water. ... Source: www.flightglobal.com --- 22 days ago
The US National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a team to investigate the mid-air collision on 29 June of two emergency medical service helicopters in Flagstaff, Arizona. At about 15:50 local time two Bell 407 EMS helicopters (N407GA operated by Air Methods out of Englewood, Colorado and N407MJ operated by Classic Helicopters of Woods Cross, Utah) collided near the Flagstaff Medical Center while both approached the hospital for landing. There are believed to at least six fatalities. NTSB senior air safety investigator Aaron Sauer will lead a team of four investigators accompanied by NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker. Mark Rosenker's statement on the incident is included in the Associated Press video below: Source: www.wsbtv.com --- 15 days ago
NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker says the crash was "an accident that didn't have to happen." ... Source: www.ntsb.gov --- 26 days ago
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When your employee is asleep on the job, that's bad. When your employee is asleep on the job and that job happens to be flying airplanes, it's worse. Much worse. Which is why the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is insisting that the FAA wake up and do something about the problem of pilot fatigue. "The Safety Board is extremely concerned about the risk and the unnecessary danger that is caused by fatigue in aviation," says NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker . "We've seen too many accidents and incidents where human fatigue is a cause or contributing factor." Despite his concern, the board's recommendations are vague at best -- it suggests that the FAA develop a "fatigue management system" that includes education programs and new scheduling procedures, but it falls short of requesting that the FAA modify the rules that dictate the number of hours pilots are allowed to work. The sleep-related incidents cited by the NTSB don't exactly inspire confidence in the FAA's current system. In two of them, pilots either skidded off of or overran their runway, and in another, a plane crashed into a cluster of trees on its final landing approach, killing two pilots and 11 passengers. If those examples are troubling, then this one is downright scary: a flight bound for Hilo, Hawaii overflew it's destination by 26 miles, and it took air traffic control 18 minutes to get a response from the flight crew. Why? Because both pilots were snoo ...
A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people aboard. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters, right, and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Mark Rosenker, left, look over a device designed to eliminate flammable gases in large passenger airplane fuel tanks, during a news conference at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Chantilly, Va., July 16, 2008. A flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated air caused the catastrophic explosion of a Boeing 747, TWA Flight 800, in 1996. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters displays a device designed to eliminate flammable gases in large passenger airplane fuel tanks, during a news conference at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Ashburn, Va., July 16, 2008. A flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated air caused the catastrophic explosion of a Boeing 747, TWA Flight 800, in 1996. The recovered wreckage of TWA Flight 800 stands reassembled at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Chantilly, Va., July 16, 2008, where it is used for training new investigators. The Boeing 747 crashed into the Atlantic after passing over Long Island Sound and Long Island, New York in 1996, after a flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated ...