National Transportation Safety Board
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 National Transportation Safety Board     | |
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| Formation | April 1, 1967 |
| Parent organization | US |
| Type | investigatory |
| Subpage | •National Transportation Safety Board/Chairman |
| The NTSB is the US government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. | |
The NTSB is normally the lead organization in the investigation of a transportation accident within its sphere. Its mandate is the investigation of accidents rather than crimes, so if criminal conduct is suspected, it hands responsibility for investigation to the FBI.
This has lead to apparently contradictory situations such as the case of TWA Flight 800 which the NTSB, mindful of the testimony of 250 eyewitnesses who reported something streaking toward the plane just prior to the explosion, passed to the FBI. The FBI nevertheless subsequently declared the explosion was a simple accident and not, in fact, a criminal act.[1]
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