49 C.F.R. Subpart D—Accident Investigation Records
Title 49 - Transportation
Upon completion of the field investigation (normally 60 days after the accident), the Board's investigator-in-charge shall complete a factual report (with documentation) and send it to the Director, Bureau of Administration, who shall then make the record available to the public for inspection or commercial copy order (see appendix). Upon completion of the investigation by a team of Board investigators (normally 60 days after the accident), the report of each investigator (group chairman), with documentation, shall be sent to the Director, Bureau of Administration, who shall make these records available to the public for inspection and commercial copy order (see appendix). Within approximately 2 weeks after a public hearing concerning an aviation accident, the Director, Bureau of Administration, shall make available to the public for inspection or commercial copy order, the hearing transcript and the exhibits introduced at the hearing (see appendix). Upon completion of the Board's investigation of these accidents (normally 60 days after the accident), the investigators shall send to the Director, Bureau of Administration, a file of the documentation obtained. This file shall then be made available by the Bureau of Administration, for public access or commercial copy order (see appendix). Within approximately 2 weeks after a surface accident public hearing, the Bureau of Administration shall make available for public inspection and commercial copy order, the hearing transcript and exhibits introduced at the hearing. (a) The Board shall report the facts, conditions, and circumstances, and its determination of the cause or probable cause of all U.S. civil aviation accidents approximately 6 months after each accident occurs. All such reports shall be provided by computer printout, published periodically as “Briefs of Accidents.” (b) All major or catastropic air carrier accidents and noncatastrophic accidents, involving both air carriers and general aviation, which provide unusually significant safety issues shall be reported by the Board in detailed, narrative format. The formal, narrative report shall provide the facts, conditions, and circumstances, and the Board's determination of the cause or probable cause of the accident; the report shall be issued approximately 6 months after date of accident. (c) After notice of issuance appears in the Any surface transportation accident investigated by the Board, and certain marine accidents investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard, shall result in a formal Board report. Such report shall provide the facts, conditions, circumstances, and the Board's determination of cause or probable cause of the accident. Reports of accidents investigated by the Board shall be issued approximately 6 months after the date of accident. After notice of issuance appears in the
Title 49: Transportation
PART 801—PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION
Subpart D—Accident Investigation Records
§ 801.30 Field aircraft accident investigations.
§ 801.31 Major aircraft accident investigations.
§ 801.32 Aircraft accident public hearings.
§ 801.33 Surface transportation accident investigations.
§ 801.34 Surface accident public hearings.
§ 801.35 Aviation accident reports.
§ 801.36 Surface transportation accident reports.
