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Essay on How The Federal Aviation Administration And NTSB Work Together
An accident is defined by the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all persons have disembarked, in which any person suffers death or serious injury as a result of being in or upon the aircraft or by direct contact with the aircraft or anything attached thereto, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage."
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) writes and enforces all the rules and regulations for aircraft manufactured or operated in the United States. It also operates the U.S. air traffic control (ATC) system.
Therefore to work efficiently FAA and NTSB started working together. As In the case of the airline industry itself, the years since 1986, while still speckled with accidents, near midair collisions, airline management wars with employees, near accidents of other sorts, hub-and-spoke capacity problems of continental proportions, and many other maladies, have brought a significant improvement in safety.
This is a direct result of the natural shift from the deregulators' dream of perfect competition into the reality of an oligopoly of megacarriers who are in turn locked into feeder arrangements with a growing number of commuter airlines. These megacarriers are increasingly able to overwhelm their respective hubs and dominate their respective markets.
The FAA is an administrative agency, not a court of law. Therefore, sanctions taken against an erring pilot are called "certificate action." An administrative law judge holds a hearing on the certificate (i.e., pilot's license). As in all administrative hearings, there is no jury and the rules of evidence are relaxed....
