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...There was planning discussion, both by the air traffic controllers and the crew, conversations with each other about using Runway 22 for departure," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Deborah Hersman said Monday on CNN. "We do know from the information that we have obtained on scene, gathered evidence, documentation and from the flight data recorder, that the runway that the crew used was Runway 26." The two runways at the Lexington airport cross in an X pattern. To get from the terminal to the head of Runway 22, the airport's 7,000-ft.-long main strip, the plane...
...Last fall, the NTSB said that runway incursions were among the NTSB's "most wanted" improvements. It also said that existing runway safety procedures are insufficient and criticized the FAA for being slow to make improvements. Sometimes large safety issues can be solved with small changes like lighting and paint. Although it has not been ruled that poor signage or lighting is involved in the Comair crash, it has been an ongoing issue that safety experts have been trying to fix. An FAA test project to make runway markings more visible that was begun at T. F. Green Airport...
...statute, at least three NTSB members are supposed to have "technical qualifications." But that definition has been expanded as never before, say industry safety veterans. With Goglia's departure, there will be only one member, Richard Healing, with extensive experience in airplane-safety issues...
Current chairwoman Ellen Engleman Conners responds that the board is responsible for all modes of transport, not just aviation, and that more people died in surface accidents in 2003 than in aviation accidents. (Historically, however, more than 80% of the incidents investigated by the NTSB have involved aircraft.) "Board members are not investigators," she adds. "We review the work of the staff and make sure the recommendations can be and are implemented. This board is clearly qualified for its role." An airline-safety official disagrees: "The NTSB system is designed for the five board members to provide oversight and balance...
...been stripped of most of its aviation expertise and that it will move further in that direction if President Bush's fourth nominee for the five-member board, Deborah Hersman, is approved. Hersman, 33, a Senate aide who has dealt mainly with truck and train issues, will replace current NTSB member John Goglia, 59, who has spent 30 years working on aviation safety and is the only airline mechanic ever to serve on the board...