The Trump administration has eliminated the vice chair of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, who was appointed to the position within the waning days of the Biden administration, Fox Information Digital discovered.
The White Home eliminated Alvin Brown from the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, a White Home official confirmed to Fox Information Digital Tuesday morning. Brown had served on the five-person security panel since March 2024, earlier than President Joe Biden appointed him as vice chair of the board in December 2024 – one month earlier than President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is an impartial authorities company charged with investigating main transportation accidents, equivalent to airplane crashes, and crafting security steerage to stop accidents.
Brown, a Democrat, was the primary Black mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, serving from 2011 to 2015, earlier than serving as senior advisor for Neighborhood Infrastructure Alternatives for the U.S. Division of Transportation in 2022, based on his biography.
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Alvin Brown, a member of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, attends an investigative listening to. Brown was faraway from his position in Could 2025. (Getty Photos)
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board’s web site, as of Tuesday morning, lists 4 members, all of whom have been appointed by Trump both throughout his first or second administration. They’re Chair Jennifer L. Homendy, Michael Graham, Thomas B. Chapman and J. Todd Inman.
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The Trump administration was rocked by a airplane crash on Jan. 29 close to the nation’s capital, when 67 individuals have been killed after an Military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airways passenger airplane collided close to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport. That accident was adopted by different high-profile airplane crashes.
President Donald Trump’s administration eliminated the Biden-era Nationwide Transportation Security Board Vice Chair Alvin Brown. (Getty Photos)
Air journey was hit with delays in current days, most notably at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, when air site visitors controllers briefly misplaced communication with planes. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joined Fox Information’ Laura Ingraham Monday night, the place he addressed the delays and stated he plans to overtake and “radically remodel” America’s air site visitors management system.
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“We’re going to construct a brand-new air site visitors management system – from new telecom, to new radars, to new infrastructure. We’re bringing on new air site visitors controllers,” he stated. “This has been an issue within the many years coming, and we’re going to repair it.”
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“When you might have an incident like this, you need to be sure that individuals are protected,” he added, referring to the delays in Newark. “And so, you simply have much less departures out of the airport till we really feel comfy and protected that the system isn’t going to go down once more.”
