Biden-era transportation safety board vice chair removed by Trump admin

IN Trump administration He removed the Vice -President of the National Transport Safety Committee, who was appointed role in the missing days of the Biden administration, Fox News Digital learned.

The White House removed Alvin Brown from the National Transport Safety Committee, the White House official confirmed on Tuesday morning Fox News Digital. Brown served on a five -person security board since March 2024, before the President Joe Biden appointed him as Vice -President of the Committee in December 2024 – a month before the president Donald Trump Inauguration.

The National Transport Safety Committee is an independent government agency in charge of researching major traffic accidents, such as a plane crash and drafting guidelines to prevent accidents.

Brown, Democrat, was the first black Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, who served from 2011 to 2015, before he was a senior counselor for infrastructure opportunities in the community for the US Traffic Department 2022according to his biography.

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Alvin Brown, a member of the National Transport Safety Committee, attends an investigating hearing. Brown was removed from his role in May 2025. (Getty Images)

The National Transport Safety Committee website, from Tuesday morning, states four members, and all Trump appointed either during his first or second administration. They are Jennifer L. Homendy, Michael Graham, Thomas B. Chapman and J. Todd Inman.

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Trump’s administration was swinging a plane crash on January 29 near the state capital, when 67 people were killed after a military helicopter of Black Hawk collided near Ronald Reaganon’s national airport, and a American Airlines passenger plane. This accident followed the other accidents in the aircraft.

President Donald Trump’s administration was removed by the Vice President of the National Security Committee in Biden Alvin Brown. (Getty Images)

Air Travel has been affected by delays in recent days, mostly at the Newark Liberty New Jersey International Airport, when air traffic controllers briefly lost communication with planes. Sean Duffy’s transport secretary joined Fox News’ Lauri Ingraham on Monday night, where he addressed delays and said he was planning overhaul and “radically transformed” America Air traffic management system.

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“We will build a brand new air traffic control system-New Telecom, to new radars, to a new infrastructure. We bring new air traffic controllers,” he said. “It was a problem in decades that come and we will fix it.”

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“When you have an incident like this, you want to make sure people are safe,” he added, referring to the delays in Newark. “And so, you just have less left from the airport until we feel comfortable and surely the system will not fall again.”