Thousands of Safer Ethanol Rail Tank Cars Sit Idle: Reuters
While crossing a small wooden bridge in northwestern Iowa last Thursday, 20 rail tank cars in a mile-long train transporting ethanol flew off the tracks, sending fireballs into the sky, while thousands...
View ArticleNTSB Expects Report on Fatal Mississippi Bus Crash Within Weeks
Investigators say a preliminary report on the March 7 train-bus crash in Mississippi that killed four Texas tourists should be ready within three weeks. Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gillich on Friday...
View ArticleMississippi City to Close 6 Train Crossings After Deadly Collision
The city council in Biloxi, Miss., has approved a plan to close six railroad crossings in the city. Biloxi had already been planning to close a half-dozen of its 29 railroad crossings before a CSX...
View ArticleFederal Investigators Probing Crash That Killed 13 in Texas
Federal officials are investigating a head-on collision between a pickup truck and small church bus in southwest Texas that crumpled the front of the bus and killed 13 senior adults returning from a...
View ArticleInvestigators Collect Phone Data in Texas Bus Crash
A federal investigator said her agency has collected cellphone records from a pickup driver who a witness said admitted to being distracted by texting before he collided with a church bus killing 13...
View ArticleCalifornia Commissioner Was Passenger on Jet That Nearly Landed on Taxiway
A top California state official said he was a passenger on an Air Canada jet that nearly landed on a taxiway where four other planes were sitting rather than the designated runway at San Francisco...
View ArticleCalifornia Commissioner Wants Investigation Following Airline Near Miss
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who was a passenger last week on the Air Canada flight 759 that nearly landed on a taxiway at San Francisco International Airport, has sent a letter to the...
View ArticleAlaska Fatal Airplane Crash Getting NTSB Hearing
A National Transportation Safety Board investigative hearing in Alaska next month on a fatal commercial airplane crash will be the first held outside of Washington, D.C., in nearly 20 years. The board...
View ArticleNTSB Releases Results of Investigation Into 2015 New York Train Crash
Federal safety investigators said Tuesday they can’t determine why an SUV ended up in the path of an oncoming commuter train, causing a crash that killed six people at a rail crossing in suburban New...
View ArticleFreight Train Cars Burning After Derailment in Pennsylvania, Residents Flee
Rail cars carrying gas and sulfur on a CSX Corp freight train skidded off the tracks and burst into flames on Wednesday in a small Pennsylvania town, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes...
View ArticlePennsylvania Commuter Train Crash Injures Dozens, None Critically
A commuter train crashed into a parked train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early Tuesday morning, injuring dozens of passengers and the train’s operator, a transit spokeswoman said. None of the...
View ArticleFamily Says Tesla Car Did Not Kill Their Son But Regulator Says Tesla Shares...
Federal accident investigators are poised to find that Tesla Inc.’s auto-driving system should share blame for a fatal 2016 crash in which a Model S sedan drove itself into the side of a truck. The...
View ArticleOfficial Says Bus in Deadly New York Crash Going Twice the Speed Limit
Federal safety investigators say a charter bus that blew through a red light in New York City and caused a horrific crash that killed three people was traveling at nearly double the posted speed limit....
View ArticleKentucky Jury Awards $21.7M to Families of 3 Killed in Medical Chopper Crash
A Kentucky jury has awarded $21.7 million to the families of three people who died in a June 2013 medical helicopter crash. A jury in Clay County decided the award Thursday after a three-week trial and...
View ArticleDrone’s Collision With Army Helicopter Over New York Probed
Federal investigators have opened their first probe of a mid-air collision between a civilian drone and a traditional aircraft. An Army UH-60 helicopter was flying east of Staten Island on Sept. 21...
View ArticleYear After Texas Balloon Crash, NTSB Wants Medical Certification Exemption...
The National Transportation Safety Board has called on the Federal Aviation Administration to remove its medical certification exemption for commercial balloon operators, saying it contributed to a...
View Article3 Lawsuits Filed Over Tennessee Bus Crash That Killed 6 Kids
So far, three lawsuits have been filed following a school bus crash in Chattanooga, Tenn., that killed six children and injured several more. The Chattanooga Times Free Press each of the lawsuits have...
View ArticleNTSB: Crew Fatigue Main Cause of Deadly 2014 Arkansas Train Crash
Crew fatigue brought on by irregular work schedules and a moderate form of sleep apnea is the primary reason behind a middle-of-the-night train crash that killed two Union Pacific workers and injured...
View ArticleSchool Bus Driver in Fatal Maryland Crash was Speeding, Had Prior Wrecks
The driver of a Baltimore school bus that careened into a transit bus, killing him and five others, was speeding, had a history of previous crashes and had a seizure the week before, national...
View ArticleExperts: Pilot of Crashed Texas Balloon on 10 Different Prescription Meds
The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Texas in July, killing 16 people, was taking medications that should have precluded him from flying, medical experts testified at a federal hearing on...
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