US EditionWhite House removes vice chair of independent NTSB
- In May 2025, the White House unexpectedly dismissed Alvin Brown from his leadership role at the National Transportation Safety Board.
- Brown was nominated by President Biden and sworn in April 2024 to fill one of two vacancies on the five-member board.
- His removal is rare and unexplained amid NTSB investigations of nearly 1,250 active domestic cases and over 160 foreign ones.
- NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy testified in March that investigations include a January midair collision killing 67 people and a Philadelphia crash killing eight.
- Former investigator Jeff Guzzetti noted he has never seen such a direct removal by an administration, and case numbers are expected to remain high.
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Trump ousts Biden’s Democratic NTSB vice chair amid aviation crisis
President Donald Trump's administration recently removed the Democratic vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board.A White House official told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Alvin Brown had been removed from the board.'We're going to build a brand-new air traffic control system.'Brown was appointed to the five-person safety panel by former President Joe Biden in December 2024, after the November presidential election and just weeks…
Trump administration abruptly removes the NTSB vice chair, former Jacksonville mayor
By HALLIE GOLDEN, Associated Press The vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been abruptly removed from his position, the White House confirmed Tuesday, a rare move that comes as the agency investigates more than 1,000 cases. The Trump administration removed Alvin Brown a little more than a year after he was sworn in. The White House didn’t say why he was removed. Brown was major of Jacksonville from 2011 to 2015. The deci…
NTSB vice chair Alvin Brown abruptly fired by Trump administration
The vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been abruptly removed from his position, the White House confirmed Tuesday, a rare move that comes as the agency investigates more than 1,000 cases.
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