NTSB Safety Recommendations A-08-01 and -02

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Title: NTSB Safety Recommendations A-08-01 and -02

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          NTSB SAFETY RECOMMENDATION
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National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594

January 7, 2008

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Safety Recommendations A-08-1 and A-08-2

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The National Transportation Safety Board makes the following recommendations to the
Federal Aviation Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration:

In collaboration with air carriers, manufacturers of lithium batteries and electronic
devices, air travel associations, and other appropriate government and private
organizations, establish a process to ensure wider, highly visible, and continuous
dissemination of guidance and information to the air-traveling public, including
flight crews, about the safe carriage of secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
or electronic devices containing these batteries on board passenger aircraft.
(A-08-1)

In collaboration with air carriers, manufacturers of lithium batteries and electronic
devices, air travel associations, and other appropriate government and private
organizations, establish a process to periodically measure the effectiveness of
your efforts to educate the air-traveling public, including flight crews, about the
safe carriage of secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries or electronic devices
containing these batteries on board passenger aircraft. (A-08-2)

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 http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2008/A08_1_2.pdf

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