The National Transportation Safety Board is looking at issues raised by more than one whistleblower as it investigates battery failures that have grounded the global fleet of 50 Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners for a week. Michael Leon, one of the …
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico’s top transportation official said Tuesday. …
A federal safety board is recommending that all states require ignition interlock devices for convicted drunk drivers, including first-time offenders. The five-member National Transportation Safety Board said the devices are currently the best available solution to reducing drunk driving deaths, …
U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in northern Mexico. The National Transportation Safety Board said it …
The National Transportation Safety Board says the New Jersey bridge where a train derailed last week had several recent signal and alignment problems. NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman says inspectors checked out the Paulsboro bridge on Thursday after signal problems were …
Authorities are trying to determine if there was water in the fuel of a plane that crashed in Mississippi on Nov. 13, killing three pilots, according a preliminary report on the investigation. The report says dirty water similar to that …
Government accident investigators want the Federal Aviation Administration to require fire suppression systems in all cargo planes. The goal is to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight fires responsible for the deaths of four pilots in three accidents since 2006. …
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a 2009 helicopter crash on Maui in which a commercial pilot and a federal inspector were seriously injured. The crash report does not draw any conclusions about what caused the …
The U.S. government should require automakers to offer advanced safety features like lane departure warning in all passenger vehicles and commercial trucks to prevent accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday. These new technologies, which include adaptive cruise …
Though the number of non-fatal and fatal general aviation accidents decreased between 1999 and 2011, there were still more than 200 fatal accidents occurring in each of those years, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). …