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jennifer homendy, do you think they have a grasp on this? what do you think of it?d as a wake up call for the faa. but i want to see us move beyond just staring at the data and talking to each other. we need action. and the ntsb has essentially given the faa a road map to move forward with safety change. >> one thing that i see is -- some of the things that are discussed seem long term. is there a quick fix? >> there is not a quick fix. but many of the nearly 300 recommendations that we've issued could be implemented today, could have been implemented years ago when we issued them, preventing collisions and preventing some of the incidents that we are seeing now. >> chair of the ntsb, jennifer homendy, thank you for coming on. >> thank you so much. >> so, there's another layer to all of this. airlines also have to deal with unruly passengers right now. two flight attendants on the front lines of this battle are next. ever better. it's when disruption hits your supply chain and ryder makes sure you're ever delivering with freight brokerage to transportation managemen

jennifer homendy called the train derailment in east pal palestine preventible as she discusses some of the preliminary investigation. [inaudible conversations] >> all right. thank you for joining us. as jennifer said, my name is jennifer homendy, i'm chair of the national transportation safety board. with me is rob hall, the director of our office of rail, pipelines and hazardous materials investigations. i want to start with addressing the people of east palestine. i am so sorry for the traumatic events that you're going through. it's devastating over the course of my career, and i've handled rail and pipeline and hazmat well over 25 years, both rob and i have sat with communities, with residents after devastating rail, pipeline, hazardous materials releases. we've talked to community members who are suffering health effects, have pets who have died, have damage to businesses and homes, but i can tell you this much, this was 100% preventible. we call things accidents, there is no accidents. every single event that we investigate is preventible. so our hearts are with you. no that th

today i am joined by a special guest the chair of the national transportation safety board, jennifer homendy welcome to post live. >> thank you so much. i appreciate the opportunity to be here. >> if you are not following her on twitter you should correct that, she has great tweets, press conferences and of course reports from her team that go to the heart of what is going on in east palestine and elsewhere. let's start with what happened over the weekend, many of us are watching another train derailment in ohio, fortunately there does not seem to be problems with the air, water, soil quality this time. but can you tell us anything about what caused this latest derailment incident? >> thank you for the question. on this one we have investigators that arrived on scene this morning, they are still collecting information. here is what i will tell you, this was a long train, 212 railcars. some of which were tank cars transporting hazardous material. there were 28 cars of hazardous material as you noted, none of those leaked. there was a leak of nonhazardous material called polythene, about four

. >> reporter: jennifer homendy chairs the national transportation safety board. >> what's going to happen in the future when we have even more of a congested airspace >> reporter: the ntsb renewing its call for longer cockpit voice recordings right now the devices in the u.s. only keep two hours of audio before they're overwritten. the ntsb wants 25 hours. >> we don't have cockpit voice recorders in any of the six runway incidents. >> reporter: meanwhile, the faa says it plans to hire 1,500 air traffic controllers this year, 1,800 next year. lester. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> in texas today, scary moments at the san antonio zoo. a tree falling onto visitors sending several people to the hospital blayne alexander has late details for us. >> go, go, go. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: it took just seconds for this terrifying scene to unfold at the san antonio zoo. officials say a massive tree branch unexpectedly broke and fell injuring two adults and five children, one of them critically it happened just after noon right in the middle of a busy spring break holiday >> and we heard what s

. >> reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy. >> we are coming out of theng a time where we have a lot of new staffing and that requires training. for these incidents. >> reporter: is the system stretched to its limits? >> it could be. certainly it is a concern. >> reporter: other concerns include increasing faa funding at the need for more air traffic controllers. the miracle on the hudson pilot captor sully sullenberger. >> certainly during covid, the aviation industry was really affected greatly, and so now we are short staffed and playing catch up, and when the system is under pressure, we are seeing these kinds of incidents pop up as warnings to not try to fly more than we should. >> reporter: the ntsb has made seven safety recommendations around preventing runway collisions dating back 23 years. so far, none have been fully implemented. that includes an early warning system for air traffic controllers. it has been installed at only 40 u.s. airports. norah? >> norah: that is interesting, kris van cleave, thank you so much for your well, there is an upd

. >> reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homd homendi. >> we're coming out of the pandemic. we're experiencing a time where we have a lot of new staffing, and that requires training. for these incidents -- >> reporter: is the system stretched to its limits? >> it could be. certainly it's a concern. >> reporter: other concerns include increasing faa funding and the need for more air traffic controllers. miracle on the hudson pilot captain sully sullenberger. >> certainly during covid, the aviation industry was really affected greatly. so now we're short-staffed. we're playing catch-up. when the system is under pressure, we're seeing these kind of things pop up as warnings to not try to fly more than we should. >> reporter: the ntsb has made seven safety recommendations around preventing runway collisions dating back 23 years. so far none have been fully implemented. that includes an early warning system for air traffic controllers. it's been installed at about only 40 u.s. airports. norah? >> that's interesting. kris van cleave, thank you so much. >>> now to

focused on the run way win kurgss, and the notice of the turbulence issues on the rise, and jennifer homendimake that the turbulence is not as bad, but there was a severe turbulence in december and of the 36 people on board injured, one of them was a 14-month-old baby. and the ntsb says that if this is attacked now and something that the faa can do to require that the parents put their child in a seat and strapped in, that would make a difference. >> it is most common issue on airliners and it makes a difference if you are not belted in. you have to make sure that you are belted in the not just portions of the flight, but the entire flight. >> the issue here is that an accident or the incident, or turbulence issue, and the average baby who is weighing 10 pounds, and under 10gs, the force of gravity that you would go through in the crash, that would make the baby weigh 200 pounds, and so the big solution here is to put your child in a strapped in front-facing or rear facing child seat. and the faa has specific instructions on the website, and you should be able to make sure that the seat is c

for a closer look at these issues and the investigation into norfolk southern, i'm joined by jennifer homendy the national transportation safety board. thank you for being with us. have you in your investigation been able to determine what norfolk southern has had so many derailments as of late especially in ohio? >> we actually looked at the record of some of the major freight railroads in ohio, and it is interesting to note csx operates twice the track mileage of norfolk southern, but norfolk southern has a greater number of accidents per 1000 miles. each of these accidents are very different. we are investigating six now involving norfolk southern, and will review assignment one that occurred back in october. that is a lot in a short period of time, but it is tough to say there is a commonality among all of them, because they are all different. geoff: the ntsb investigation into the east palestine derailment so far says there was an overheated erring on the car that caused the derailment. you have established the what. have you learned more about the why and the how? >> that is right, the

thank you very much, jennifer homendy, chair of the national transportation safety board.in the meantime, i want to go to erin ellison, erin was at this town hall meeting that got a little raucous. erin, did you get any answers? i know there was a norfolk southern representative, not the ceo, alan shaw was not there. but any answers to your questions or concerns, aaron? enter yeah, for sure. they talked a lot about whattest thing that they're going to be doing over the next few weeks -- what testing. that's a big concern for me. i have a wife and two small children, and, you know, we love east a palestine. we want to stay here but only if it's safe. and i think that they are going to be doing what the epa, national and cdc are doing, a lot of testing over the next two weeks and, hopefully, we get that information. neil: do you think that the company is hiding anything? i mean, i know i've talked to a number of those who were at the same meeting that you were at who just feel that the company's not been up and up and not even been there enough, much more concerned about, yo

. >> national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy says, this is the latest incident ofle were injured when this hawaiian airlines flight encountered turbulence on descent into honolulu. >> it is the most common issue experience on airliners, and it can be very dangerous, especially if you are not belted in. >> lufthansa attributes the incident to clear air turbulence, the faa says it occurs without visual cues to warn pilots of the hazard. in 115-page study of turbulence incidents on commercial airliners, and he has me findings were simple, wearing a seatbelt reduces the risk of serious injury. >> i would not be afraid, but at the same time you do have to be prepared for any type of injury, and make sure you buckle up. >> like in this latest case, turbulence often comes with little or no warning, the ntsb says between 2009 and 2018, the flight crew was taken by surprise 28% of the time. this is an especially big problem for flight attendants, the head of the ntsb says they are often the most at risk of getting hurt. pete one team, cnn, washington. >> all right, that wra

tsv chief, jennifer homendy. >> we really need to focus o butz going on in the aviatio system let's takeall right, we talked abou that six runway incursion, w are now learning this was in sarasota the ntsb says air traffi control cleared a plane to lan on the runway that another pla had just been cleared to tak off from so, this sounds familiar we've had a couple of thes cases so far this year at th ntsb says, this sounds like it was an air traffic control error. the fta and ntsb are investigating. willy? >> too many close calls as h weighed out there so well in your piece i want to go back to the story we read coming into you, which was this man on a flight fro los angeles to boston, attempting to open the door, stabbing, or attempting to sta and the way. we get some scrapes in on flight attendant what more do we know about him and what exactly happened on that plane >> we know that the starte with an alert that went off in the cockpit, the cockpit got a alert, a warning, that one o the doors between the coas section and first class that s many had tried to open it, o at, least that the

ntsb chief jennifer homendy. >> we really need to focus on what is going on in the aviation system let's's figure out what are we missing here. >> reporter: we mentioned the sixth runway incursion or close call this one in sarasota happened back in february just learning about it two commercial flights one of them cleared to take off. another one cleared to land on that same runway the ntsb believes this could have been an atc, air traffic control error. savannah >> tom, thank you. that sets us up for more perspective on state of airlines safety, we turn to a man who knows a lot about it, retired u.s. airways pilot captain sully sullenberger pulled off the miracle on the hudson in 2009, successfully landing in the freezing hudson river after losing both engines to a bird strike and anyone on board survived and he works now as an aviation safety expert with years of experience captain sullenberger, we just laid out all of those incidents. they're not related but do you see a thread do you see a thread that concerns you >> they are the canaries in the coal mine. and they should concern us