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by the National Transportation Safety Board - please see below for availability.
Recent longer aviation briefs are available here; others
are accessible separately using the interactive Query.
We also publish Accident Animations.
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| General Interest Reports
Includes annual reports, safety reports and special studies.
Errata: (by year report issued) |
Print: Copies of publications may be obtained from the Records Management Division free of charge while supplies last, or may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service - please see Sources of Information. Online: Recent publications are available online in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe for viewing. Links to these files are indicated in the modal listings at left. In general, only publications from 1996 and later are online at this time; these include final accident reports, safety studies, safety reports, brief accident reports (surface only), special investigation reports, annual reports, and other NTSB publications. Older reports are made available online as resources permit. CD-ROM's of publications issued during calendar years 1996 and later are also available - contact Records Management Division to order. IMPORTANT: Some PDF publications are quite large - see the Summary description for each document to obtain file size. (Questions/Problems/Tips) Please note that portions of documents may have been scanned through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system in order to reduce document size and enhance searchability; minor differences from the printed copy may appear (see Tips). |
The Independent Safety Board Act, as codified at 49 U.S.C. Section 1154(b), precludes the admission into evidence or use of Board reports related to an incident or accident in a civil action for damages resulting from a matter mentioned in the report. For a definition of report, see 49 CFR Section 835.2.
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