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...choice. Though she doesn't have much direct aviation experience, Blakey is a veteran Washington hand, a former Transportation Department (which houses the FAA) official, and a successful businesswoman who ran her own public relations firm for years. Blakey has gotten high marks in her short tenure at the NTSB, the agency which investigates aviation accidents, and is sure to bring her p.r. savvy to the oft-criticized FAA, one agency in Washington that could really use the help...
...Recorded by a surveillance camera at a New York City area tollbooth, the tape captures nearly the entire catastrophe that sent the Airbus A300 crashing into a residential neighborhood in Queens less than 3 min. after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 12. According to an NTSB source, the plane can be seen "flying along normally and intact, and suddenly things start to go very wrong." The video records the plane as it begins its descent. The crash is obscured, but the tape continues to run and smoke can be seen rising from the scene. Experts...
...Recorded by a surveillance camera at a New York City area tollbooth, the tape captures nearly the entire catastrophe that sent the Airbus A300 crashing into a residential neighborhood in Queens less than 3 min. after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 12. According to an NTSB source, the plane can be seen "flying along normally and intact, and suddenly things start to go very wrong." The video records the plane as it begins its descent. The crash is obscured, but the tape continues to run and smoke can be seen rising from the scene. Experts...
...spokesman for American, says the carrier reworked its pilot-training program in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder and that both pilots on Flight 587 would have received the updated training. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate all possible causes of the crash. The NTSB has asked NASA to help it analyze the tail fin, which was made of composite materials, in its effort to determine whether some structural flaw in the plane was responsible for the still mystifying crash...
...According to the NTSB, the flight data recorder was damaged in the crash, and so they've sent it back to its manufacturer to see if any information can be retrieved. How could they get data from a damaged recorder...