TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lebow,Cynthia C.
AU  - Sarsfield,Liam
AU  - Stanley,William L.
AU  - Ettedgui,Emile
AU  - Henning,Garth
ED  - Institute for Civil Justice (U.S.)
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Safety in the skies: personnel and parties in NTSB aviation accident investigations 
SN  - 0833028065
AV  - TL553.5 .S295 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - United States
KW  - National Transportation Safety Board
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Aircraft accidents
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Conflict of interests
N1  - "Institute for Civil Justice."; Includes bibliographical references; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) bears a significant share of the responsibility for ensuring the safety of domestic and international air travel. The NTSB relies on teamwork to resolve accidents; the "parties" that participate in an investigation may include manufacturers and operators, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration. This arrangement works well under most circumstances, despite inherent conflicts of interest that may jeopardize, or be perceived to jeopardize, the integrity of the NTSB investigation. The NTSB's ability to lead investigations and to form expert teams is also seriously threatened by a lack of training, equipment, and facilities; by poor control of information; and inadequate aids to project management. Additionally, the need to modernize investigative practices and procedures is particularly acute. In this report, RAND outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations intended to help the NTSB strengthen the party process, create a more expansive statement of causation, modernize investigative procedures, streamline internal operating procedures, better manage resources, maintain a strategic view of staffing, streamline training practices, improve facilities for engineering and training
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1122/
ER  -