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A Letter From NTSB Aviation Safety Director

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  Professor: Bernadette Stockwell, Ph.D. Student: John C Gibson Semester: Fall 2022 A Letter From A Notable Person National Transportation Safety Board 490 L'Enfant Plaza,  SW Washington, DC 20594 John C Gibson  Fox Hall 314,  177 Middlesex Street Lowell, MA, 01854 National Transportation Safety Board http://www.ntsb.gov May 27, 2012 Dear Friend, I am delighted to reply to you on the eve of my retirement from NTSB. I enjoyed being interviewed recently by news organizations. I talked to Tempa Bay Times reporters yesterday about my plans after NTSB career. But seeing a college freshman’s letter addressed to me is more than refreshing and unexpected. Your mail came from the School of Engineering at UMass, Lowell. I believe that you and I majored in the same subject for our bachelor’s degrees. I can only congratulate you on that. You have made an excellent choice. Only our colleagues can grasp the magnitude of the vast field of study. I see the parallel between your inte...
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The Changing Faces of Flight Safety

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  John Gibson Oct 31, 2022 Research Report ENGL 1020 253 College Writing II Prof. Stockwell Prologue Through this project, I want to learn how the safety of passenger flights has improved over the past 50 years. Over the last 2 years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, air traveling around the world slowed to a grinding halt, but it quickly recovered to its former full capacity in this coming holiday season of the year 2022. The conflict of interest between FAA and Boeing was exposed in the middle of the pandemic after two fatal crashes of Boeing 737Max, killing 346 people, with a congressional hearing and the replacement of Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenberg. I am interested in filling the passenger jet safety history gap between now and 50 years ago. I will figure out whether the dysfunction of FAA oversight was an isolated instance and whether air travel is safer now than ever. The conventional wisdom of the economic world is that every 25 years, people forget about the lessons that the ...
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