A career Washington bureaucrat and lobbyist, [Marion Blakey] was sworn in as the NTSB's chairwoman Sept. 26, barely 2 weeks after terrorists brought down four passenger jets.
So far, Peter Goelz, who formerly held the NTSB's No. 2 post, and others give her high marks. Blakey handled this week's public briefings with aplomb. She assured the public that the crash was an ...