The Chair of the NTSB called to provide an update on a riverboat accident in New Orleans.

Posted by Speaker Mike Johnson, Nov 13, 2026Checked Nov 13, 2026

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Sources: 1 support3 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 40%

Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnsonNov 13, 2026

I’m grateful for the outreach from the Chair of NTSB who called to provide me with an update on the riverboat accident in New Orleans. Rescues continue and we pray that all passengers and crew are recovered safely. We are awaiting further updates and monitoring the situation.

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The sources confirm the NTSB chair was in phone contact about the New Orleans riverboat crash, but in a call with Rep. Troy Carter, not with the post's author, Speaker Johnson, as the claim implies. No source addresses a call from the NTSB chair to Johnson or what was said to him, so the claim as extracted cannot be graded.

What we found

Supports. Rep. Troy Carter said he had just been on the phone with the NTSB chairwoman about the crash, and that the NTSB was trying to get to New Orleans.[1]

Context. Reporting describes the NTSB's forensic team as delayed by the FAA's nationwide ground stop, so the agency was engaged on the incident.[2][3][4]

Context. No source mentions a call from the NTSB chair to Speaker Johnson or any update given to him; the only documented call is to Carter, and the sources do not describe it as an update.[1]