National Board News

Pilot Action: Pilot action was a primary cause of the crash.

Design/Manufacturing Defect: A Boeing design or manufacturing defect was a primary cause of the crash.

YES

Department of Education

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Federal Statistical Agencies

Freddie Mac

National Weather Service

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Internal Revenue Service

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

National Institutes of Health

Ginnie Mae

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

National Park Service (NPS)

Fannie Mae

Small Business Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigations

The Supreme Court

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

US Postal Service

The NTSB's final report does not explicitly state that any of the above causes were the primary cause of the collision, or the final report identifies multiple equal causes, or the NTSB does not release a final report by December 31, 2025.

The NTSB's final report explicitly states that pilot error (from either aircraft) was the primary cause of the collision.

The NTSB's final report explicitly states that electrical or mechanical failure (whether due to unknown causes or explicitly due to a maintenance error) was the primary cause of the collision.

Before 2029

Before 2030

Before 2028

Before 2027

Before 2026

YES

YES

NO

YES

YES

Jeffrey Sachs

Huey Li (and the news)

SerpentZA

Laowhy86

Nicholas Kristof

Michael Pettis

Peter Hessler

James Fallows

Kevin D Walmsley of Inside China Business

Liziqi

Nathan Rich

Living in China

Jerry Kowal

Significant effort (10k+ posts) to manipulate comment threads on hacker news.

Asia Society Policy Institute

Yale Center Beijing

Brookings Institution (China Center)

Blondie in China

Elon Musk

NO