NTSB: All Air Safety Updates Will Only Come On X

The Desk reports:

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week. Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X.

The Desk has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the government agency to learn more about the NTSB’s decision-making process in moving updates to the news media exclusively to X. The NTSB did not say why it was choosing to post information about public safety matters exclusively on X, a private social media platform owned by technology mogul Elon Musk.

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For media covering the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia—all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information will be posted to this X account. We will not be distributing information via email.

— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) February 1, 2025

To better manage the volume of incoming emails to NTSB Media Relations, announcements on the timing and location of briefings for the Washington and Philadelphia airplane accident investigations will be announced here on @ntsb_newsroom. Reporters should email…

— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) February 1, 2025