Thu, Mar 15, 2007
Served As Lead Investigator On USAir 427 Accident
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker
named Thomas E. Haueter Director of the agency's Office of Aviation
Safety on Thursday. He has served as Acting Director of the office
since November 2006.
"I'm pleased to announce Tom's appointment as the head of our
aviation safety operations," Chairman Rosenker said. "He has proved
his ability and leadership qualities over his 23 years at the
Board. As an Investigator-in-Charge, he led some of our most
sensitive and complex investigations -- most notably the crash of a
Boeing 737 near Pittsburgh, which resulted in the redesign of
rudder actuators for the most popular airline model in the
world."
Haueter was an airworthiness investigator before being named an
Investigator-in-Charge. In addition to the USAir Flight 427
accident near Pittsburgh in September 1994, Haueter led the
investigations into the crash of a commuter airliner in Brunswick,
GA which claimed the lives of all 23 persons aboard, including
former Senator John Tower; and the midair collision that claimed
the life of Senator John Heinz.
He was also the US Accredited Representative for the crash of a
Boeing 737 in Panama, and was the lead NTSB investigator assisting
the U.S. Air Force in the investigation of the airplane that
crashed near Dubrovnik, Croatia, killing an American trade
delegation led by Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.
Haueter's private sector experience includes work with Pratt
& Whitney Engines as a structures engineer in gas turbine
engine design.
Haueter earned an MBA in Operations Research and International
Business from George Mason University, and a BS in Aeronautical and
Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University. He holds a
commercial pilot's license with multi-engine and instrument
ratings, and regularly flies a 1943 Stearman airplane that he
restored.
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