Police Testify Driver in Deadly Tennessee School Bus Crash was Speeding
The 24-year-old driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children was speeding about 20 miles per hour over the 30 mile-per-hour limit, police testified Dec. 14, drawing tears from their...
View ArticleWidow of Pilot Killed in Washington Crash Files Suit against Aircraft Companies
The wife of one of the men who died after a plane crashed into Washington’s Spokane River has filed a lawsuit against the companies that built and maintained the aircraft. The Spokesman-Review reported...
View ArticleNTSB to Probe Pennsylvania Trolley Crash that Hurt Nearly 50
Federal crash investigators are heading to Philadelphia a day after a collision between two trolley cars injured nearly 50 people. A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman says the agency is...
View ArticleNew Jersey Transit Rail-Crew Hours Draw Scrutiny Over Safety Limit
New Jersey Transit faces a widening examination of its safety practices after federal regulators discovered hundreds of potential work-hour violations, including altered duty logs and shifts longer...
View ArticleInvestigators: Plane in Fatal Oklahoma Crash Lost Power
A preliminary report on a plane crash in northeastern Oklahoma that killed a Grove man says the aircraft lost engine power while in flight. The report from the National Transportation Safety Board...
View ArticleDefective Axle Blamed Fiery 2013 Derailment in North Dakota
A defective axle broke and caused a 2013 train derailment that led to a series of explosions just a quarter-mile outside a small North Dakota town, the National Transportation Safety Board said...
View ArticleSenator Schumer Wants NTSB to Look into Small Plane Crashes in New York
Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct an in-depth investigation of small plane crashes, following two incidents last month and at least 18 crashes in New York...
View ArticleAfter Fiery Iowa Derailment, Safety Official Calls for Faster Rail Car Upgrades
A federal safety official called on the rail industry to move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers following a fiery train derailment in rural Iowa that spilled ethanol into a creek and was still...
View ArticleDetails Emerge on What Went Wrong in Tour Bus, Train Accident in Mississippi
The Texas tour bus hit by a freight train in a deadly crash in Mississippi wasn’t supposed to have taken the road where it got stuck at a rail crossing earlier this week, a federal official said...
View ArticleThousands 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...
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