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The premier accident investigator is urged to tighten up its management practices

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is often among the first to arrive on the scene, after an airplane or train crashes. Its expertise is renowned….

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this March 11, 2019, file photo, wreckage is piled at the crash scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer Yonas Yeshanew, who is seeking asylum in the U.S., says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included routinely signing off on shoddy repairs. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

After Boeing 737 Max crashes, GAO looked at European standards for plane certifications

Agency Oversight

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FILE - This June 19, 2015, file photo, shows the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration building in Washington. America's standing as the model for aviation-safety regulation will be on trial as congressional hearings begin Wednesday, March 27, 2019, into the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of Boeing before and after two deadly crashes of its best-selling airliner. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Transportation Department needs skilled workforce to meet automation needs

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Heather Krause: Government spends $1 billion annually on PR

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