after the colgan hijacked touched down , the airport movement area safety system ( fortune ) alerted and the air pollution engineer transmitted " steady , hold , sit " to the airlines flight crew in an endeavour to stop the planes short of ramp 1l . the skywest crew applied maximum braking that succeeded in the airline stopping in the end of runway 1l . as this was happening , the operator of american airlines pilot 4912 took control of the aircraft from the first pilot , realized the aircraft was being too fast to stop , and initiated an immediate takeoff . according to the crew of skywest 5741 , the republic airlines aircraft overflew theirs by 30 to 50 feet . the federal aviation administration has categorized the incident as an operational error .
NTSB is responsible for investigating transportation accidents in the United States.