{"id":24005,"date":"2025-05-07T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-white-house-fires-biden-appointed-vice-chair-of-ntsb\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:55:25","slug":"trump-white-house-fires-biden-appointed-vice-chair-of-ntsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-white-house-fires-biden-appointed-vice-chair-of-ntsb\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump White House fires Biden-appointed vice chair of NTSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, who was appointed to the post by President Joe Biden late last year, has been fired, a senior White House official confirmed to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Brown&#8217;s ouster happened Tuesday. Brown, a Democrat who was the first African American elected mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, was appointed by Biden as the NTSB&#8217;s vice chair in December. Brown joined the five-person board earlier in 2024, being sworn in on the same day as Todd Inman, a Republican who was also appointed by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB is an independent agency with board members appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to serve five-year terms. The president designates the chair and vice chair for three-year terms in those roles. The chair requires a separate Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s firing comes amid other <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-supreme-court-firings-independent-labor-boards\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Trump administration dismissals<\/a><\/span> of other Democratic members of independent agencies, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/democratic-ftc-commissioner-speaks-out-against-her-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/former-national-labor-relations-board-member-who-was-fired-by-trump-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">National Labor Relations Board<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/66d4b937-174f-4fd5-b8aa-e30ebfe55a84\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/5a63ae80aad150fc788735bf2ffd7cb8\/alvin-brown-2165094667.jpg?v=8782d831dd587e69db5d043c0a4c5f4b#\" alt=\"Alvin Brown, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, attends an investigative hearing into the blowout of an exit door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX plane during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, at the National Transportation Safety Board headquart \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/66d4b937-174f-4fd5-b8aa-e30ebfe55a84\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/5a63ae80aad150fc788735bf2ffd7cb8\/alvin-brown-2165094667.jpg?v=8782d831dd587e69db5d043c0a4c5f4b 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/66d4b937-174f-4fd5-b8aa-e30ebfe55a84\/thumbnail\/1240x930g2\/388005693e9fe9327e8b4c4b91c9cb3b\/alvin-brown-2165094667.jpg?v=8782d831dd587e69db5d043c0a4c5f4b 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Alvin Brown attends an investigative hearing into the blowout of an exit door plug on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in Washington, Aug. 6, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Bryan Olin Dozier\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The move leaves the NTSB with four board members \u2014 Inman along with Chair Jennifer Homendy, Michael Graham and Thomas Chapman \u2014 who were all appointed by President Trump during his first term in office. Homendy was appointed as the board&#8217;s chair by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB investigates all fatal general aviation accidents, including commercial accidents and incidents, as well as significant accidents across the various modes of transportation as well as pipeline accidents. The board does not have regulatory authority. Instead, it determines the probable cause of those accidents and makes safety recommendations to avoid similar ones in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The board is currently investigating a host of aviation accidents, including January&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/washington-dc-plane-crash-update-today-ntsb\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deadly midair collision<\/a><\/span> over Washington, D.C., multiple fatal small <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/small-plane-crash-northeast-philadelphia-neighborhood-homes-catch-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">plane<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/plane-missing-alaska-10-on-board-nome\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">crashes<\/a><\/span> and last year&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-pilot-interview-door-blowout-emily-wiprud\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">blowout<\/a><\/span> of an Alaska Airlines door panel midflight.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB declined to comment, directing inquiries to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s departure was first reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Gabrielle  Ake<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kris-van-cleave\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kris  Van Cleave<\/a><\/p>\n<div 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