Word: ntsb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be months before the NTSB reports on the cause of the crash. Two questions undoubtedly will be deeply probed. Why did the turbofan engine, built by General Electric and used on DC-10s, break up in flight? Were all three hydraulic systems knocked out, and if so, can they be better protected...
Rachel Halterman, spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said agency investigators met with emergency medical teams from the city, county and state and representatives of the airline, the plane's manufacturer and the pilots union to maximize the search for victims and clues from the crash...
...search of the crash site, roughly the length of three football fields, "will be an inch-by-inch thing," Halterman said from the NTSB's makeshift command center in the Sioux City Convention Center...
...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
...separate study, the NTSB chronicled serious flaws in the air-traffic- control system for Southern California's airports. Though the FAA knew of cramped working conditions in control towers and a high level of errors, the agency allegedly took no action to improve the situation...