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...NASA still refused to jump to any conclusions. The agency named an interim investigative panel to take charge of the search and called upon two aircraft "crash detectives" from the National Transportation Safety Board - for help. The NTSB experts, more experienced than the space agency in reconstructing accidents, will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger...
Questions about how the fire started and generated such acrid smoke through the DC-9 began to arise even as a makeshift morgue was set up at the airport to identify the bodies, some of which were badly charred. A team from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FAA and the FBI arrived to sift through the ruins of the plane for clues. NTSB officials suspect that the fire may have been started by a cigarette in a back-cabin lavatory. In Washington, aviation officials debated once again whether more stringent regulations regarding fire-resistant materials inside jetliners should...
...NTSB has not finished its investigation of the crash, but the pilots' conversation supports the leading line of speculation about the causes: the snowy, 24° weather. First Officer Roger Alan Pettit, 31, the copilot, initially expressed concern about the icy conditions, as he would again and again. Twenty minutes after the 737's last glycol wash, Pettit joked: "Maybe we can taxi upside a some [727] sittin' there runnin' [and] blow off whatever [ice and snow have built up on the wings]." Several minutes later Pettit remarked, "It's been a while since...
...person and injuring two others. Both pilots were flying under visual flight rules (VFR) and thus were responsible for keeping a safe distance from other aircraft. A PATCO official claimed that a San Jose controller had not informed the pilots of each other's positions, but a preliminary NTSB report absolved the control tower of any responsibility for the crash...
...probe went on, the NTSB asked the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study the long-term effects of vibration and acoustics on engine pod and pylon attachments in all superjets, including those flown by the Air Force. If the NTSB eventually finds the DC-10 pylons are too weak, it could recommend that the plane be grounded again until they are strengthened or replaced, and the FAA most likely would issue such an order...