What has happened to the Ntsb?

[i fly boxes]

I know things like twitter and Facebook have made media related things different than 10 years ago but why is the Ntsb releasing info and posting pictures of the crash as soon as they can now? What is wrong with this person in charge? What happened to investigating and then reporting the facts? All it's doing is feeding idiots like wolf blitzer. Take note pilots, if anything happens you will be crucified and blamed for everything! We need to take a Stand to protect our privacy!

 

[TriStar_drvr]

The head of the NTSB (the one always in front of the TV cameras) is bucking for a promotion, Secretary of Transportation.

 

[Flyer1015]

A Kim Kardashian wannabe is running the NTSB. Standby for tweets from the UPS crash site.

 

[Russ]

Deborah Hersman ain't all that bad looking...every beer shaves a year...

 

[Lampshade]

Her resume is pretty damn thin to be running the NTSB.

"She was a student pilot and soloed but did not complete her training. She holds a commercial driver license (with passenger, school bus, and air brake endorsements) and a motorcycle endorsement." LOL really.

 

[zasca]

Yeah, she needs to keep her effing mouth shut. A freaking travesty, the info releases the last few accidents....

 

[SENECAII]

Her resume is pretty damn thin to be running the NTSB.

"She was a student pilot and soloed but did not complete her training. She holds a commercial driver license (with passenger, school bus, and air brake endorsements) and a motorcycle endorsement." LOL really.

This is what happens when you elect an incompetent president.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

This is what happens when you elect an incompetent president.

In 1999, she left Wise's office to join the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.[5]
In 2004, Hersman was appointed as a board member of the NTSB by President George W. Bush. In 2009, President Barack Obama reappointed to a second five-year term and appointed her to a two-year term as chairman, making her, at age 39, the youngest person ever to fill that position.[7] Obama reappointed her as chairman in 2011.

This seems to be a common theme, lately. It seems like W. starts something and O. continues it.

Of course, there probably is a long story about how she was the only candidate that could get approved due to our current politics. Republicans get a W. nominee and Democrats get a female chairman.

 

[Golden Falcon]

Greg Feith would have been a great person in that job

 

[APFPilot]

I'll second that. The NTSB has always seemed to me to be an apolitical organization that does things in a methodical way regardless of what outside pressures want (obviously with the exception of immediate safety of flight issues.) Granted we'd sometimes have to wait to get the information that we wanted but it cut off some of the speculation that has been happening lately based on the release of a single picture without context or a comment from an investigator.