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The Act created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). [1] However, with the passage of the Homeland Security Act in 2002, the TSA was later transferred to the Department of Homeland Security. [2] The legislation (S. 1447) was sponsored by Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina and co-sponsored by 30 other senators.
The Federal Aviation Act of 1958, which created the Federal Aviation Administration, [3] gave the Civil Aeronautics Board duties investigating civil aviation accidents. [ 4 ] In 1974, as the airline industry rapidly expanded, Congress established the NTSB within the framework of the Department of Transportation, as outlined in the Department of ...
Aviation and Transportation Security Act: A bill to improve aviation security, and for other purposes; Aviation Security Act; Flight Deck Security Act of 2001; Federalize Aviation Security bill; Sky Marshals bill Pub. L. 107–71 (text) 107-72: November 20, 2001 Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2001
Proponents of placing the government in charge of airport security, including Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, argued that only a single federal agency could best protect passenger aviation. Congress agreed, and authorized the creation of the TSA in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act , which was signed into law by President ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents, bridge failures, and railroad accidents. [3]
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1940 from a split of the Civil Aeronautics Authority [1] and abolished in 1985, that regulated aviation services (including scheduled passenger airline service [2]) and, until the establishment of the National Transportation Safety Board in 1967, conducted air accident investigations.
Air transportation in the United States is overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, which is responsible for airports, air traffic control, and aviation safety regulations. Regulations vary depending on the type of aircraft, with aircraft of different sizes and purposes subject to different regulations. [ 4 ]
Aviation in the United States was not regulated during the early 20th century. A succession of accidents during the pre-war exhibition era (1910–16) and barnstorming decade of the 1920s gave way to early forms of federal regulation intended to instill public confidence in the safety of air transportation. [7]