NTSB aviation investigations questioned over reliance on outside help [Video]

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Air travel remains one of the safest modes of transportation, but when a plane does crash, who is really investigating what happened?

It’s supposed to be the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), but sometimes the agency doesn’t show up. Atlanta News First Investigates found nearly a dozen fatal crashes throughout Georgia where NTSB investigators stayed home, including a 2020 crash in Putnam County.

In Georgia, the NTSB doesn’t respond to fatal events 16% of the time.

Full investigation from our partners at InvestigateTV:

(InvestigateTV) — Just 19 minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 departed, a door plug behind the aircraft’s left wing suddenly blew out, causing rapid decompression in the cabin.

By the time the plane made an emergency landing and limped back to a gate — the event leaving the 171 passengers and six crewmembers shaken but alive — the wheels of the investigation into what went wrong were likely already in motion.

By law, the National Transportation Safety Board…