National Transportation Safety Board history

Later, that responsibility was given to the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Aviation Safety, when it was created in 1940.

568). Over the next three decades, lawmakers created a maze of regulatory agencies, including the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the federal aviation administration (FAA). The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (Pub.

In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Department of Transportation Act that created the NTSB (source: USDOT).​​​​

Nevertheless, NTSB's administrative support and funding were funneled through the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). Over time, the need for a totally separate, nonreliant agency was recognized, and the 1975 Independent Safety Board Act severed all DOT ties.

1987. "Admissibility of National Transportation Safety Board Reports in Civil Air Crash Litigation." Journal of Air Law and Commerce 53 (winter).

Since 1990, the NTSB has highlighted various issues such as protecting child passengers, use of seat belts, and recreational boating safety in its "Most Wanted" list of transportation safety improvements.

In 1996, Congress assigned the NTSB the additional responsibility of coordinating Federal assistance to families of aviation accident victims.

Goglia, John. "The Investigation Process." Mass Transit, March/April 1998, 54.

In 2000, the agency embarked on a major initiative to increase employee technical skills and make our investigative expertise more widely available to the transportation community by establishing the NTSB Academy.

The NTSB took occupancy of the new facility in August 2003.