The board that reviews transportation accidents says the Federal Aviation Administration ignored its safety suggestions for skydiving planes, like the one that crashed on Friday in Hawaii, killing 11 people
A team from the NTSB is in Oahu gathering wreckage, interviewing witnesses and employees, and investigating the fatal skydiving plane crash.During a press conference Monday, NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy told reporters that the FAA has ignored many NTSB suggestions for changing safety regulations of parachute plane operators.
"The NTSB has called on the FAA to improve the safety of parachute jump operations. Some of those recommendations, specifically with respect to training, maintenance of aircraft and FAA oversight have not been acted on by the FAA," she said.Homendy added that the training and maintenance may not be factors in this investigation but that they will be part of the NTSB's overall analysis of this crash.
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