accidentincludes damage to or destruction of vehicles in surface or air transportation or pipelines, regardless of whether the initiating event is accidental or otherwise.
aircraft accidentmeans any aviation disaster, regardless of its cause or suspected cause, for which the Board is the lead investigative agency.
appropriate congressional committeesmeans the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
basic payincludes any applicable locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 of title 5 (or similar provision of law) and any special rate of pay under section 5305 of title 5 (or similar provision of law).
Institutemeans the Transportation Safety Institute of the Department of Transportation and any successor organization of the Institute.
passenger listmeans a list based on the best available information at the time of the request, of the name of each passenger aboard the rail passenger carrier’s train involved in the accident.
rail passenger accidentmeans any rail passenger disaster that—
rail passenger carriermeans a rail carrier providing— except that such term does not include a tourist, historic, scenic, or excursion rail carrier.
recordermeans a voice or video recorder.
Statemeans a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
still imagemeans any still image obtained from a video recorder.
transcriptincludes any written depiction of visual information obtained from a video recorder.