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...into the Alaska crash further detailed the failures of the FAA's supervision and staff. "The Alaska crash raised the question: If the FAA can't keep track of the smallest airline in ATOS, what can it keep track of?" says Bob Francis, who was vice chairman of the NTSB until 1999. Two weeks ago, 13 families who lost loved ones on Flight 261 filed a claim against the FAA for negligence for its failure to oversee Alaska...
...after meeting with FAA officials in July, the airlines concluded that the agency wanted to rush to complete the audits before the NTSB public hearing on the Alaska crash. Reason? To project the impression that the agency was on top of any problems when the NTSB came down with its expected criticism in the fall...
...NTSB involved in what is essentially a Navy investigation...
...Thompson: The NTSB was called in because this collision involved civilians and occurred in U.S. waters. And to be honest, the Navy is not at all opposed to having another set of eyes on this investigation - when something like this happens out on the water and you're not in sovereign territory, issues of control can get kind of messy. Besides, if the inquiry had been totally self-contained within the Navy, it might have looked kind of suspicious...
...NTSB also found problems with the inflatable plastic slides designed to sweep survivors out of a plane: 37% of the time they did not deploy correctly. Some passengers were momentarily unable to get out of Flight 006 when a slide deployed and knocked them sideways. "It seemed like forever before we got untangled and away from the unbearable heat," says Diaz...