NTSB Chairman Pushes For Child Safety Seats on Aircraft
NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said the Board has been pursuing the FAA since the 1970s to rule on child restraints.

In her last public talk as National Transportation Safety Board chairman on April 21, Deborah Hersman made a final pitch at the National Press Club for child safety restraints in commercial aircraft. The NTSB has been trying to convince the FAA to mandate the equipment for several decades, and Hersman used the 1979 crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa, to make her point. Although the accident claimed 111 lives, another 185 people on board survived. A number of small children were among the passengers that day.