The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued the newest version of its Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, focusing attention on the need to ensure the safe shipment of hazardous materials, reduce fatigue-related accidents and expand the use of flight data recorders.
The 2017–2018 Most Wanted List, announced Monday, spells out the need for action in those areas and seven others, many of which involve aviation and also include other forms of transportation.
The list, first issued in 1990, “has been our roadmap from lessons learned to lives saved,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart. “It represents actions which, if taken, will save lives and reduce the number of people injured, and amount of property damaged in transportation accidents.”
The only item on the list directed solely at aviati…
