The
National Transportation Safety Board’s Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg was
designated Friday to continue to serve in the position for a new term of three
years.
President Donald Trump designated
Landsberg as the Board’s Vice Chairman Friday. Landsberg began a five-year
appointment as a NTSB board member Aug. 7, 2018, and on that same day began a
two-year term as the NTSB’s Vice Chairman.
“It’s been a privilege to work with staff,
fellow Board members, and the public to improve our national transportation
system,” said Landsberg. “Unfortunately, there is no shortage of safety
opportunities and we’ll be looking at ways to apply some of the systemic
approaches that have been used so successfully in aviation to some of the other
modes. We’re working toward the goal of zero deaths in transportation, and
until we can achieve that goal, we’re working to reduce the number of
deaths and injuries that happen every year in every mode of
transportation.”
(NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg became
the NTSB’s 43rd Board Member Aug. 7, 2018, and was designated as the
agency’s Vice Chairman for a term of two years. Landsberg was designated Friday
as the NTSB’s Vice Chairman for another three-year term that would expire at
the same time as his five-year appointment as a Board Member. NTSB Photo by
James Anderson)
“Bruce brings a wealth of experience to
the NTSB with his extensive general aviation safety background,” said NTSB
Chairman Robert Sumwalt. “While serving as vice chairman during the past two
years, Bruce has provided great assistance to me in my role as chairman. I’m
delighted that President Trump has allowed him to continue in that capacity for
another three years.”
Landsberg, who has more than 7,000 hours
piloting aircraft, holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with instructor
ratings for airplane single and multi-engine land, instruments and advanced
instrument/ground instructor certificates. A graduate of the University of
Maryland with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Landsberg also served in
the U.S. Air Force.
The term of the NTSB’s Chairman
and Vice Chairman was extended from two-years to three-years by Congress in the
NTSB’s October 2018 reauthorization. Among Landsberg’s priorities from his new
term as Vice Chairman, he wants to see implementation of safety recommendations
related to:
Reducing distraction and speeding related
highway crashes, reliable automation in vehicles, and automated enforcement on
highways.
Improved weather forecasts and reduction of
weather-related aviation crashes through practical and widespread inflight weather
reporting by pilots
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