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After nearly 30 years with the NTSB, Clint Johnson—Alaska’s aviation safety watchdog—is retiring, leaving behind a legacy of over 1,000 accident investigations and transformative safety reforms. Raised in Alaska’s aviation world, he brought firsthand insight into pilot pressures and tackled tragedies like the Ted Stevens crash and the loss of a friend and state trooper. While Alaska’s skies have seen major safety upgrades—from avionics to weather tech—its still the nation’s deadliest for plane crashes. Johnson urges installing black boxes on small planes and upgrading weather systems, hopeful that new federal funding will accelerate change. He wrapped his career by finishing the Bering Air report, which calls for stricter oversight of fast-growing operators and deeper scrutiny of company culture as key to preventing future disasters.

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