July 25, 2014
A new report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on parasailing safety found that most of the parasailing accidents it investigated were the result of a combination of factors, including an operator’s failure to monitor developing weather condition, …
April 9, 2014
A preliminary report by federal safety investigators says there wasn’t enough distance between an automatic emergency braking mechanism and the end of a train track at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday released its preliminary …
September 30, 2013
A National Transportation Safety Board report blames shoddy workmanship for an in-flight tear in the roof of a Southwest Airlines plane in 2011. The Boeing 737-300 was en route from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., on April 1, 2011, when a …
September 26, 2012
The collision of a chemical tanker with a containership in the Houston Ship Channel in October 2011 was likely caused by the inappropriate response of the pilot of the Elka Apollon to changes in bank effect forces as the vessel …