The NSTB disputed the FAA’s responses to 11 of the 33 NTSB recommendations to the FAA.
Most importantly, the FAA has not agreed to mandate ADS-B In. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy asked, “How many more decades have to go by before we again and again and again have to recommend it after terrible tragedy?”
The FAA has not addressed multiple recommendations surrounding increased training and testing. The FAA has also not improved timely notifications of “near-misses” and also has not developed a database to track these incidents.
The FAA’s approach appears to be merely grabbing the low hanging fruit and hoping everyone moves on before it is pressured to commit to fundamental safety reforms.
