NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker On Southwest Flight 1248

On Wednesday, the second and final day of public hearings into what led to a tragic runway overrun accident at Chicago's Midway Airport last December wrapped up... and with the information gathered during those hearings, it is up to the National Transportation Safety Board to determine what factors led to the accident, that caused the death of a six-year-old boy.

Mark Rosenker is acting Chairman of the NTSB. In today's exclusive interview with Aero-News... he says one aspect of the accident that will get a lot of attention as the safety board digests what it's heard over the past two days, are the various stories about the slickness of the runway -- all of them subjective -- the plane's pilots received enroute to the airport.

"We haven't done the specific analysis yet... so we have to take a look specifically and analyze what the cockpit voice recorder said, analyze any of the commuications between the airport and the cockpit crwew, and recognize what dispatch provided," Rosenker tells ANN Senior Editor Pete Combs in today's ANN Special Report.

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ANN Special Feature -- NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker: 06.22.06 (ANN Special Feature, with the NTSB's Mark Rosenker on the hearing into last December's runway overrun at Midway Airport.)

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