Many families whose loved ones have been involved in an aviation or other major transportation accident (including major highway, railroad and marine accidents) are unaware that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has a website that provides important accident information. The website address is: http://www.ntsb.gov/.
For aviation matters, the website includes investigation materials for specific aviation accidents, general aviation safety issues and overall aviation accident data. The link is: http://www.ntsb.gov/AVIATION/Aviation.htm. Among other things, this section provides a listing by month of the preliminary, factual and probable cause reports for all accidents investigated by the NTSB.
Certain accidents or specific safety issues are the subject of NTSB board meetings and public hearings. The schedule for Board meetings is found at: http://www.ntsb.gov/events/boardmeeting.htm#upcoming. The schedule for public hearings is found at http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/hearing_sched.htm. Many of the hearings can be viewed through webcast links.
These proceedings provide significant insight into the inner workings of the NTSB and its investigative process.