The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends that the FAA require a re-design of the thrust reverser system on Learjet 60 business aircraft. The recommendations contained in a letter to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt stem from the Sept. 19, 2008 accident in Columbia, SC, in which a Bombardier Learjet 60 operated by Global Exec Aviation overran Runway 11 while departing Columbia Metropolitan Airport. The pilot and copilot perished The crash also killed two members of rock musician Travis Barker’s entourage. The two other passengers were seriously injured and the aircraft was destroyed by a post-crash fire. The NTSB urges that the FAA require Learjet to change the design of the Learjet 60 thrust lever system in future-manufactured airplanes so that the reverse lever positions in the cockpit match the positions of the thrust reverser mechanisms at the engines when the thrust reversers stow.