The independent agency charged with probing the collapse of the Baltimore bridge and other major incidents doesn’t have enough investigators, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told lawmakers.
Homendy’s agency, which is also overseeing consequential investigations into recent aviation and rail accidents, needs to add more than 50 additional investigators to be fully staffed, she said in written testimony for a House hearing on Wednesday.
“It is critical for the agency to have additional resources to respond to events without affecting our timeliness, the quality of our work, or our independence,” Homendy, whom the Senate confirmed for another term ...