Mark Rosenker
Mark Rosenker
Mark Rosenker is an American aviation official who served as the 11th Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Boardfrom August 2006 through August 2008. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Chairman Rosenker was renominated by President Bush for a second term as Chair and was going through the Senate confirmation process which basically ended when President Obama was elected in November 2008. He served as acting chair starting in March 2005...
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We believe that more than 500,000 vehicles equipped with air brakes may be operated by drivers who, like the Glen Rock driver, have no air brake training and therefore may not be able to operate their vehicles safely.
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Remember who drove the car into the crossing area. Who drove the car? The train didn't drive there. It goes there. It can't go anywhere else, ... The decision-making process was made by a driver. People have to be sensitive to the dangers of these rail crossings.
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The train should have been slower we believe, when it made that crossover, that would be the way it was supposed to operate.
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The Safety Board believes that had an automatic train control system ... been in place at the time of the accidents, the accidents could have been avoided.
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He put his train into emergency braking and radioed his dispatcher,
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The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.
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We believe this recommendation needs the immediate attention of the FAA since we will be experiencing winter weather conditions in many areas of our nation for several more months to come.
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We're going to learn a lot by using this vessel. The top of the vessel is virtually identical, and the hull is identical. That will be enough to give us what we need to know.
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The potential consequences of these fires can be catastrophic.
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We've seen fatigue. We don't know why that fatigue appeared. That is what we're trying to determine. This crack appears to extend through a majority of the spar at the location of the separation.
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We'll be looking at operations. We'll be looking at human factors.
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We'll be looking at everything in this investigation. Nothing is off the table.
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The aircraft, although badly mangled, came up in one large piece because of all the wires and cables that were holding it together.
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Last night was different. Different because of the extremely crowded roads, perhaps because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps people weren't focusing, perhaps they were thinking about a Thanksgiving dinner with their family.