NTSB Calls for Nationwide Ban on All Cell Phone Use While Driving December 14, 2011 By JOAN LOWY Following yesterday’s Board meeting on the 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Mo., the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)...
Investigation Blames Alaska Plane Crash on Missing Nut December 14, 2011 A National Transportation Safety Board investigation says the crash of a small plane just off the Kodiak State Airport runway,...
Closing Arguments Set in Suit Over Pennsylvania School Bus Crash December 6, 2011 A jury could begin deliberations soon in a family’s lawsuit over the school bus crash that ended with a suburban...
Federal Agency to Hold Hearing on Air Shows, Races December 5, 2011 By SCOTT SONNER A federal hearing will examine the safety of air races and air shows after a horrific crash killed 11 people...
Safety Oversight of Government Aircraft Lacking November 30, 2011 By JOAN LOWY Nonmilitary government agencies operate more aircraft than the world’s largest airline but are subject to little federal safety oversight –...
NTSB Rules Out Weather in Oklahoma State Crash November 21, 2011 Federal investigators say weather likely wasn’t a factor in the plane crash that killed two Oklahoma State women’s basketball coaches...
Curbside Buses Have Higher Fatal Accident Rate November 1, 2011 By JOAN LOWY A federal report says the thriving curbside bus industry, which is based on cheap fares, has a fatal accident rate...
Controllers, Pilot Blamed for New Jersey Midair Close Call October 12, 2011 By Controllers, pilot blamed for NJ midair close call Errors by air traffic controllers and a jet pilot led to three planes nearly entering into one another’s flight paths...
NTSB: No Open Panels on Plane Before West Virginia Crash October 4, 2011 A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board accident report says nothing broke off a 1950s-era plane prior to it crashing into...
NTSB Releases Report on Deadly Calif. Pipeline Explosion September 28, 2011 By JOAN LOWY Federal accident investigators have released a 140-page report on a gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and decimated a...