Latest Transportation Headlines
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NTSB: Pilots in Fatal Katz Crash Ignored Safety Check on 99% of Trips
Apr 8 2015 // Investigators of the private-jet crash that killed billionaire Lewis Katz discovered that the sports mogul’s personal pilots almost never performed the required pre-flight safety checks when shuttling their boss...
U.S. Issues ‘Urgent’ Oil Train Safety Recommendations
Apr 7 2015 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday called for the faster replacement of rail cars that carry flammable liquids like crude oil or ethanol, one of four urgent recommendations stemming from an investigation of...
Germanwings Crash Shows Need for Protections Against Suicidal Crew Members
Mar 26 2015 // The suspected intentional destruction of a Germanwings jet by a pilot shows the need for new protections against suicidal crew members, a threat emerging as one of the worst in modern aviation, accident investigators...
NTSB Has Plenty of Questions to Answer in NYC Runway Slide
Mar 9 2015 // As the National Transportation Safety Board begins its investigation into a Delta jetliner that slid off a runway while landing during a snowstorm at LaGuardia Airport, there is no shortage of questions to pursue: How big...
NTSB Says Deadly Plane Crash in Colorado Linked to Selfies
Feb 23 2015 // Federal investigators say selfies were a likely factor in a small plane crash near Denver, Colo., last year that killed two people. The National Transportation Safety Board says recordings from a GoPro camera found near...
Drivers Criticize New York Crossing Where Train, Car Collided
Feb 6 2015 // The Westchester County rail crossing made Nicole Sanders anxious even before she witnessed this week’s fiery fatal collision between a commuter train and a sport- utility vehicle. “There are a whole lot of...
New York Train Crash Investigators Ask Why SUV Stopped on Tracks
Feb 5 2015 // Federal investigators are trying to determine why a woman driving a Mercedes-Benz sport-utility vehicle stopped in the middle of railroad tracks, leading to the fiery crash of a New York commuter train in Westchester...
NTSB Says Deadly Plane Crash in Colorado Linked to Selfies
Feb 4 2015 // Federal investigators say selfies were a likely factor in a small plane crash near Denver, Colo. last year that killed two people. The National Transportation Safety Board says recordings from a GoPro camera found near the...
Transportation Safety Board Investigating New York Train Crash
Feb 4 2015 // The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the fiery rush-hour crash of a New York commuter train in Westchester County that killed six people, the deadliest accident in Metro-North Railroad’s...
New York Commuter Train in Deadly Crash
Feb 4 2015 // A northbound Metro-North Railroad train ferrying commuters from New York City struck a car during evening rush hour Tuesday in New York’s Westchester County, killing at least six people. Among the dead were...
It’s Time to Act on Trucking Safety Ideas, Says NTSB
Jan 14 2015 // Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety...
NTSB Estimates Arkansas Train Collision Damage at $178.5K
Nov 7 2014 // The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on a train collision in northwest Arkansas that left dozens of people with minor injuries. The collision happened Oct. 16 when an Arkansas &...
NTSB: Southwest Pilot Took Controls From Co-Pilot Before NYC Crash
Oct 30 2014 // The co-pilot of a Southwest Airlines Co. plane that crash landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in July 2013 said the captain put her hand on his as he was controlling the throttles and reduced the plane’s...
Feds: Engineer’s Sleepiness Caused Bronx Commuter Train Derailment
Oct 29 2014 // A sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment in the Bronx in New York City last year that killed four people and injured more...
Fireman: Trucker ‘Zombie’-Like After Fatal Bus Crash
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on...
NTSB: Pilot Error in Fatal Plane Crash in Louisiana
Oct 13 2014 // A National Transportation Safety Board report cites pilot inexperience with the aircraft as the likely cause of a fatal crash in Baker last year. The Advocate reports John Cary Fowler had plenty of experience as a pilot,...
Oil, Railroad Industries Oppose New Federal Oil Train Safety Rules
Oct 2 2014 // Proposed federal rules to make hauling crude oil by rail safer and avoid fiery wrecks would drive up costs and put the U.S. energy revival at risk, the head of an oil industry trade group said today. The American Petroleum...
Alabama Gas Explosion Heightens Concern Over Cast-Iron Pipe Corrosion
Sep 29 2014 // When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion. Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of his...
More Pilots in Crashes Testing Positive for Prescription, Other Drugs
Sep 10 2014 // Four times as many pilots killed in airplane crashes tested positive for drugs over the past two decades, tracking a broader societal trend in the use of antihistamines, painkillers and marijuana. While most of the...
NTSB Releases Its Final Report on 2012 N.J. Freight Train Derailment
Aug 28 2014 // The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on systemic flaws leading up to a 2012 train derailment that leaked a dangerous gas in southern New Jersey. The report issued Tuesday was approved by...
