2026年3月8日 / 美国东部时间下午4:16 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
国家运输安全委员会（NTSB）成员托德·英曼（Todd Inman）在去年1月华盛顿特区上空致命空中相撞事故中担任NTSB最初的现场发言人，在其通常为五年任期的第二年突然离职。
NTSB新增第五名委员会成员几天后，英曼向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，他被白宫人事办公室代表特朗普总统解雇。航空新闻服务机构The Air Current首先报道了英曼离职的消息。
“到目前为止，我尚未收到任何解雇理由，”他说道。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系特朗普政府寻求置评，而NTSB则将问题转至白宫回应。
英曼由拜登总统任命，并于2024年3月获得参议院确认。他曾在特朗普第一任期内担任美国交通部官员。在回应美国航空公司一架区域航班与一架黑鹰直升机在罗纳德·里根国家机场附近相撞的事故（机上67人全部遇难）时，英曼在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时谈及抵达现场时的所见，情绪激动。
“昨晚在残骸现场，我本以为会看到飞机残骸。当你看到那些躺在那里的尸体时，那是别人的家人，也可能是你的家人，”英曼当时告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
英曼在周日的声明中表示，能在NTSB董事会任职是”莫大的荣誉”。
“作为过去20年中两大航空事故的现场成员，与所有受影响的家庭和急救人员合作，让我更加认识到NTSB的原始使命比以往任何时候都更加重要，”他说，”目睹这些可怕的事故无疑对我和我的家人造成了影响，但也以积极的方式改变了我对如何为出行公众规范安全的看法。”
NTSB由五名委员会成员组成。这个独立机构调查所有致命的通用航空事故，包括商业事故和事件，以及各种交通方式中的重大事故和管道事故。该委员会没有监管权，而是确定这些事故的可能原因并提出安全建议，以避免未来发生类似事故。
2025年5月，特朗普政府解雇了另一位拜登任命的NTSB成员、前副主席阿尔文·布朗（Alvin Brown）。
前美国航空公司最高安全主管约翰·德留（John Deleeuw）于2月25日经参议院确认，接替布朗的职位。
NTSB member who responded to D.C. midair crash abruptly departs, says he was fired by the White House
March 8, 2026 / 4:16 PM EDT / CBS News
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman, who was the NTSB’s initial on scene spokesman at the deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C., last January, has abruptly departed the agency two years into what is typically a five-year term.
Days after the NTSB added its fifth board member, Inman was fired by the White House Presidential Personnel Office on behalf of President Trump, he told CBS News in a statement. Aviation news service The Air Current was the first to report on Inman’s departure.
“To date, I have not received any reason for this termination,” he said.
CBS News has reached out to the Trump administration for comment, and the NTSB referred to the White House for comment.
Inman was appointed by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate in March 2024. He’s a former Department of Transportation official during Mr. Trump’s first term. While he responded to the crash between a regional American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport — where 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed — Inman became emotional during an interview with CBS News discussing what he saw when he arrived on scene.
“Last night being at that debris field, I expected to see plane debris. When you look over and see those bodies laying, that’s someone’s family, it could be yours,” Inman told CBS News at the time.
In his statement on Sunday, Inman said serving on the board of the NTSB was “a great honor.”
“Having been the member on scene for two of the largest aviation incidents in the past two decades, working with all of the impacted families and first responders has made me appreciate how the original mission of the NTSB is more crucial now than ever before,” he said. “Witnessing these horrible accidents have undoubtedly taken a toll on me and my family and has changed my perspective in a positive way on how we regulate safety for the traveling public.”
The NTSB consists of five board members. The independent agency investigates all fatal general aviation accidents, including commercial accidents and incidents, as well as significant accidents across the various modes of transportation and pipeline accidents. The board does not have regulatory authority. Instead, it determines the probable cause of those accidents and makes safety recommendations to avoid similar ones in the future.
In May 2025, the Trump administration fired another Biden-appointed NTSB member, former vice chairman Alvin Brown.
John Deleeuw, formerly American Airlines’ top safety executive, was confirmed by the senate on Feb. 25. as Brown’s replacement.
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