Comair NTSB Crash Report Recommends Safety Rules
The federal investigation into last summer's Comair Flight 5191 that crashed August 27, 2006 ended Tuesday with a list of published recommendations about how to make air travel safer in the future. The final report, written by National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker, reiterated that the primary cause was a failure by the two Comair pilots to notice clues they were going down the wrong runway. However, only one of the five safety recommendations addresses steps the pilots should take and two of the recommendations relate to the control tower, run by the Federal Aviation Administration. The NTSB members ultimately voted 3-2 that the controller wasn't to blame in the aviation accident, but Rosenker stressed controllers need to better prioritize their time.
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