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NTSB Orders Special Review of Safety Advocacy Programs

Steve Scott

Monday, May 12th, 2003

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"Most Wanted" list of safety improvements to be part of overall examination Safety advocacy programs will be intensely reviewed for their effectiveness, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced last week. The decision to undertake a special review came at the end of the NTSB's May 6 public hearing on its "Most Wanted" list of needed safety improvements. That list, created in 1990, originally was intended to focus attention - and action - on the board's highest-priority safety improvements. However,…

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