National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent federal accident investigation agency. Since its creation in 1967, the Safety Board’s mission has been to determine the probable cause of transportation accidents and to formulate safety recommendations to improve transportation safety.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation -- railroad, highway, marine and pipeline -- and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents.
The Safety Board determines the probable cause of:
- all U.S. civil aviation accidents and certain public-use aircraft accidents
- selected highway accidents
- railroad accidents involving passenger trains or any train accident that results in at least one fatality or major property damage
- major marine accidents and any marine accident involving a public and a nonpublic vessel
- pipeline accidents involving a fatality or substantial property damage
- releases of hazardous materials in all forms of transportation
- selected transportation accidents that involve problems of a recurring nature
The NTSB is responsible for maintaining the government's database of civil aviation accidents and also conducts special studies of transportation safety issues of national significance. The NTSB provides investigators to serve as U.S. Accredited Representatives as specified in international treaties for aviation accidents overseas involving U.S.-registered aircraft, or involving aircraft or major components of U.S. manufacture.
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