He also said he's contacted aviation safety officials in the United States and Europe.
The NTSB is the nation's independent accident investigation board, while FAA regulates aviation safety.
Independent aviation safety expert David Gleave told the BBC what was now happening to the wreckage.
Maintaining situation awareness is critical to aviation safety, especially if there's a problem with the tracking technology.
Moscow prosecutors are launching a probe into the airline's compliance with Russian aviation safety rules, the report said.
However, the European Aviation Safety Agency argues its proposed rules are just as safe as the current UK ones.
"A lot of training goes into becoming a pilot, " said Don Koranda, vice president of the Training Aviation Safety Foundation.
The White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, chaired by Vice President Al Gore, presented its recommendations to Clinton today.
It rolled out fact sheets outlining potential drawbacks for states, aviation safety, federally funded preschool programs, military readiness and border patrols.
If those recommendations were to be implemented, aviation safety would be improved.
Worldwide, there were only 373 fatalities on scheduled commercial passenger flights in 2011, according to the non-profit Aviation Safety Network Database.
Mr. NICK SABATINI (Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, Federal Aviation Administration): We are living in the safest period ever in the history of aviation.
We relied on data from the Aviation Safety Network, a private, independent initiative founded in 1996 to keep a public database of accidents.
Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Transportation Department inspector general who remains outspoken on aviation safety as a lawyer in private practice, agreed with Goglia.
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Some aviation safety experts have questioned whether FAA has the in-house expertise to oversee the safety of cutting-edge technologies that haven't been in planes before.
The European Aviation Safety Agency endorsed the directive early on Thursday.
Companies like Boeing participate in groups like the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), which comprises hundreds of representatives from airlines, manufacturers, labor and government.
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The airline has been involved in six accidents since 2002, four of them involving Boeing 737s and one resulting in 25 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network's website.
The AAIB said the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the manufacturer are urgently reviewing the effectiveness and scope of an airworthiness directive previously issued for this helicopter type.
Though Egyptian authorities disputed the claim, aviation safety officials in France and the U.S. cited "spatial disorientation" as the likely cause based on evidence available, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The last accident at Schiphol Airport happened in December 2003 when an EasyJet flight carrying 103 passengers to London collided with a lamppost while taxiing during icy conditions, according to Aviation Safety Network's Web site.
Emelonye says he hopes the movie, along with promoting civil aviation safety in Nigeria, will open up his country's burgeoning film industry to a wider audience, dismissing the low-quality tag that's often attached to Nollywood productions.
In an opinion piece published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Boehner called the forced spending cuts "ugly and dangerous, " saying they would diminish resources for the military, law enforcement, border security, aviation safety and other programs.
Since leaving the Board, I have worked as an independent aviation safety consultant, currently teach as an adjunct at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in New York and write numerous monthly or bi-weekly columns for aviation trade publications.
The year is also closing with another notable record: the longest period in modern aviation without a single fatal airliner accident, according to Harro Ranter, president of the Aviation Safety Network, a nonprofit organization that tracks accidents and incidents.
"In a way, the designee system is admitting the FAA doesn't have the manpower to do what is required, and also that they may not have the expertise, " said John Goglia, a former NTSB board member and aviation safety expert.
In our interview he declined to specify exactly what vulnerabilities he discovered in that code, saying that he has instead contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Administration, (EASA) and is working with the affected aerospace companies to fix the problems.
Hightlights include a double-headed session of the Home Affairs Committee on drugs and extradition (at 11am) and another double-header from the Transport Committee starting at 9.35am with evidence on whether new EU proposals to regulate the number of hours that pilots fly will compromise aviation safety.
As OMB previously indicated in our statement for the record for this Committee's May 6 hearing, if additional resources are warranted for Station development, the Administration intends to look first for offsets within NASA while protecting Administration priorities in space and earth science, advanced space transportation, and aviation safety research.
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"President Jonathan assures air travelers in the country that every possible effort will be made to ensure that the right lessons are learned from the tragic loss of valuable lives in today's plane crash and that further measures will be put in place to boost aviation safety, " the statement from Jonathan's office said.
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