The NTSB plays a vital role in advancing transportation safety by investigating and determining the probable cause of accidents and crashes across all modes of transportation and issuing safety recommendations to prevent similar events from happening again. These recommendations, if acted upon, would do the most to improve transportation safety. At any given time, our agency has more than 1,100 open, unimplemented safety recommendations.
As a way to direct our advocacy resources toward safety recommendations with the greatest potential to make the greatest impact to save lives and improve transportation safety, we maintain a list of transportation priority safety items on which we most want action. See below for our current list of items by mode. We include our research, investigations, and actions taken to accomplish these goals.
Read about the history of our safety recommendations and the NTSB Most Wanted List of Safety Improvements (link).
Aviation
| Require and Verify the Effectiveness of Safety Management Systems in all Revenue Passenger-Carrying Aviation Operations
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| Install Crash-Resistant Recorders and Establish Flight Data Monitoring Programs |
Highway
| .O5 BAC per se Limit
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| Protect Vulnerable Road Users through a Safe System Approach
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| Require Collision-Avoidance and Connected-Vehicle Technologies on all Vehicles
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Pipeline
| Item to be determined
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Rail
| Item to be determined
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