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NTSB board member Inman says he was fired by White House

Aftermath of American Eagle flight 5342 crash in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

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Member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) J. Todd Inman looks on, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - A Republican member of the National Transportation ‌Safety Board said on Sunday ‌he was fired on Friday by the White House without any explanation.

Todd Inman, a former chief of staff to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao during ‌President Donald ⁠Trump's first term, had served on the NTSB since April ⁠2024. He was the on-scene board member at the American Airlines collision with an Army helicopter in January ‌2025 near Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people and the November crash of a UPS cargo plane on takeoff from the ‌Louisville, Kentucky, airport that killed 15 people.

The White House fired then-NTSB vice chair ‌Alvin Brown in May. Brown, a Democrat who was the first-ever African American elected mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, ‌has filed suit challenging his dismissal.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Mark Porter)

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