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Overview
• NTSB overview
• Investigative process
• Party process
• Other collaborative activities
• Observations about collaboration
The NTSB
• Established as part of DOT in 1967
• Established as independent agency in 1974
• Five modes: Aviation, Rail, Marine, Highway, Pipeline
• Investigate accidents
• Make recommendations
Other Functions
• Court of appeal for airmen, mechanics, and mariners
• Special studies of transportation safety
• Assistance to victims and families
Independent
• Not a part of any otherfederal entity
• No regulatory role
• Priority over other federal investigations
• Political independence
Safety focus
• Primary product: Safety recommendations
• Issued to organizations that can implement
• Goal: Improve transportation safety• Prevent accidents• Reduce injury, impact• Improve emergency response
• No requirement to implement recommendations
• Tracking, follow-up, advocacy
NTSB Most Wanted List
• Address Unique Characteristics of Helicopter Operations
• Advance Passenger Vessel Safety
• Eliminate Distraction in Transportation
• Eliminate Substance-Impaired Driving
• Enhance Pipeline Safety
• Improve Fire Safety in Transportation
• General Aviation: Identify and Communicate Hazardous Weather
• Implement Positive Train Control Systems
• Promote Operational Safety in Rail Mass Transit
• Strengthen Occupant Protection in Transportation
Investigative Process
• Notification and response, transparency
• Organize investigation, name parties
• Onsite phase, laboratory support
• Fact finding
• Technical review
• Hearing
• Report development, analysis
• Board meeting, adoption
Parties
• Agencies, companies, and associations whose employees, functions, activities, or products were involved in the accident,
and
• Who can provide suitable qualified technical personnel actively to assist in the investigation.
• Not claimants or insurers.
• Not anyone in a legal position.
Parties
• Participate in fact finding
• Contribute technical expertise
• Share information
• Avoid talking to media
• Access to all evidence
Aviation Safety:Public / Private Partnerships • NTSB Party Process
• Organized for each investigation
• Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS)• Confidential reporting system
• Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST)• Data driven, focused partnership
• Aviation Safety Information Analysis & Sharing (ASIAS)• Big data for aviation safety
Goals
• Cooperative, non-adversarial process
• Establish agreed-upon set of facts
• Make all facts public
• Conduct separate analyses
• Fair, balanced, independent report
• Explain• Why the accident happened• How to prevent