National Transportation Safety Board (ntsb)

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a United State (U.S.) agency for educating and promoting safety. They provide safety rules and regulation to all transportation for U.S. such as aviation, railroad, highway, marine, pipeline and hazardous material safety for the U.S. NTSB was founded in late 1967 by an Independent Safety Board Act determine to conduct an accident investigation and implement safety rules and regulations by evaluating them.

Through public actions and decision accident report, NTSB studies their accident report and conducts a special investigation to implement safety standards through the U.S. to prevent any further accidents. (Sky

NTSB is such an experience accident investigation agency, that foreign agency calls NTSB for their expertise and knowledge to assist for the investigation. The accident that NTSB chooses for investigation is not just an ordinary accident but is selected for the purpose of implementing it into reports for it to be used for studies for future engineers about aviation safety and as well as inventing new ideas and projects to prevent such accidents again.

Due to manpower for NTSB, it is not possible for NTSB to investigate every accident, therefore, aircraft accidents are separated into four categories range from major investigation to limited investigation. A major investigation is conducted in cases that involve large airlines or terrorism and as for limited investigation, is mostly for light aircraft accidents that are reviewed by NTSB to investigate. If the accident in huge NTSB as a special code to call “Go Team” that is a group of people to rush to the crash site and assist in the investigation ASAP. After all the investigation is done, all officers who investigated has to write a report and submit to NTSB for reviewing and for NTSB to compute a finalize report that they will be shared with the public and companies or even aviation schools for educational and training purposes. NTSB also makes a safety recommendation after an accident finalize a report to prevent such cases again. This safety recommendation is then implemented in an agency such as Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), aircraft manufacturers, airlines and air traffic controllers. (Houston, 2017)

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Party Process

NTSB allows others organizations and corporation to the investigation that provides experts engineers or officers specialized for investigations are the ones granted permission to the accident investigation especially those whose expertise provide great help to the Board that shows technical and specialized skill set. (The Investigative Process, n.d.)

None of the aircraft related personnel can just enter investigation of the accident, such as aircraft manufacturer, airline or the state of the accident. All of this does not have the right to join the investigation for the NTSB unless the organization or personal is invited for it stated under the NTSB rules. (Dombroff, 2014)

At the end of the investigation, all officers report back to NTSB chairman for preparation of a final report with each officer or engineer being asked to explain their report stated why is it and how it everything related to the accident before NTSB release it to the public.