The NTSB`s Go Team is comprised of a group of board members who have extensive accident investigation skills, including an investigator-in-charge and trained specialists in areas such as aircraft systems and structures, witness interviews, maintenance, operations, air traffic control, and meteorology. At the conclusion of the NTSB investigation, the NTSB prepares a public final report (49 CFR Parts 831 and 845), which typically includes: (1) a factual report of the accident; 2. the probable cause of the accident; 3. whether mechanical or human error contributed to the accident; (4) the presence of design or structural defects of the aircraft and its components; and (5) the effects of environmental or atmospheric disturbances. Following a civil aviation accident, airlines are required to immediately notify the local NTSB office (49 CFR § 830.5) and family members of passengers (49 CFR § 1136) and aircraft wreckage, cargo and data recorders, as well as all records, reports, internal documents and memoranda relating to the accident (49 CFR § 830.10(a)). The Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996 (49 U.S.C. §§ 1136 and 41113) and the Foreign Air Carrier Family Support Act of 1997 (49 U.S.C. § 41313) require U.S. and foreign airlines to have a family assistance plan that determines how the airline will meet the needs of families and passengers involved in an accident resulting in significant loss of life.
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In New York and New Jersey, for example, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an intergovernmental contract that operates several airports in New York and New Jersey and, in turn, contracts with sophisticated, mostly private, airport operators and/or U.S. airlines to design, build, manage and/or operate terminals. The deregulation of airlines has changed the economic and competitive profile of the U.S. commercial aviation industry. Records show that U.S. consumers paid 25% less for air travel than their European counterparts in 1986. This price gap and the overall success of the US deregulation strategy have prompted the European Union (EU) to consider and introduce similar regulatory reforms. To support the revival of the European commercial aviation sector, the EU adopted its first economic “liberalisation package” in 1987.
