Infighting continues among NTSB members
By mid-October, NTSB chairman Ellen Engleman Conners had not yet invited Board members Carol Carmody, Richard Healing and Deborah Hersman to a meeting to d
By mid-October, NTSB chairman Ellen Engleman Conners had not yet invited Board members Carol Carmody, Richard Healing and Deborah Hersman to a meeting to discuss their grievances, which they articulated in a late-August letter to the Board chairman. However, Engleman Conners’ motion to the White House to dismiss Healing for an alleged ethics violation has been dropped, after NTSB staff discovered that his actions did not violate government ethics standards.
Healing’s alleged ethics violation occurred during the investigation into the loss of an ERA Aviation Sikorsky S-76 in the Gulf of Mexico. The helicopter crashed on March 23, 2004, while en route from Galveston to Padre Island, Texas. Ten people died in the accident.
