NBAA Congratulates Jennifer Homendy on Confirmation to Lead NTSB

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) welcomes Jennifer Homendy’s Senate confirmation as chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent agency tasked with investigating civil aviation and other transportation accidents.

Homendy was confirmed as the 44th member of the NTSB in August 2018, and reconfirmed by the Senate the following year to a five-year term. Her areas of expertise include railroad and pipeline safety and the transport of hazardous materials across all modes of travel, including aviation.

In her time with the NTSB, Homendy has served with the board’s on-scene investigative response teams for several aviation accidents, including the May 2019 midair collision of two aerial tour aircraft near Ketchikan, AK; the June 2019 downing of a skydiving aircraft on takeoff near Mokuleia, Hawaii; and the January 2020 helicopter crash that claimed the lives of nine people, including basketball star Kobe Bryant and his daughter.

From 2004 – 2018, Homendy served as the democratic staff director of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and has completed private pilot ground school.

Homendy succeeds former NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, who stepped down from the board on June 30.