WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Jennifer Homendy by voice vote to chair the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent federal agency charged with investigating all civil aviation and other transportation accidents.
Homendy, 49, has served on the board since August 2018 and previously was a senior legislative staffer working on transportation issues.
She was the on-scene board member during the investigation into the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others, as well as a September 2019 dive ship fire that killed 34 people off the California coast.
