K Baum wrote:
....The FAA is under the NTSB.....


It may seem like that but it ain't so. The FAA is under the
Department of Transportation (see
http://www.faa.gov/about/history/brief%5Fhistory/). The NTSB is an
independent agency (See http://www.ntsb.gov/Abt_NTSB/history.htm.

Tony V