Word: ntsb
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...Records showed that in the past five years, the MSP provided the pilot with only one training session that consisted of a two-day ground school and one formal training flight," the NTSB report stated...
According to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report issued in December 1995, contaminated fuel and inadequate pilot training were the most likely causes of the February 22, 1995 crash...
...interrupted search operations. But on Friday there was a breakthrough. Deep Drone 7200, a remotely operated robot outfitted with cameras that can explore ocean depths without divers, located part of the cockpit, "the nerve center of the aircraft," as Robert Francis, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), described it. Said James Kallstrom, the FBI's lead investigator: "I just think that somewhere in the front of the plane is a clue." Investigators generally believe that if a bomb destroyed Flight 800, it exploded in the front of the aircraft. Examining the cockpit could help prove that theory...
Those clues are being arduously analyzed by experts at the NTSB and the FBI. One cluster of NTSB engineers is tracking the trajectories of pieces of wreckage from where they landed to where they began to fall. This is done with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations...
...111/2 minutes into the flight, followed by silence. This tiny glitch of noise reinforced the notion--privately held by many government officials almost from the beginning--that Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb or even a missile. During a Friday- afternoon news conference, Francis revealed that the NTSB was consulting with investigators of what proved to be bombings of an Air India jet in 1985 and of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 to see if the sounds on the TWA voice recorder match up with those recovered from the other two downed planes...