Accident Investigations Stalled Since Shutdown: NTSB
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U.S. crash investigators have been unable to probe 13 accidents since the government partially shut down, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said.
They include a fatal bus collision in Tennessee, a crude oil pipeline spill in North Dakota and the crash of a U.S. drug interdiction plane in Colombia that killed four people, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman told a Senate hearing today. About 1,500 investigations in all have been put on hold, Hersman said.