Latest Transportation Headlines
All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Board Faults Utility’s Equipment in Fatal 2016 Explosion in Maryland
Apr 25 2019 // A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a suburban Maryland apartment complex that killed seven people in 2016, according to federal report issued Tuesday. The explosion and fire...
NTSB Says Plane Didn’t Slip; It Entirely Missed Maine Runway
Mar 26 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board says a United Express regional jet didn’t slide off a runway in Maine – it missed the runway altogether. A preliminary report indicates the 50-seat Embraer 145...
NTSB Says Impaired Truck Driver Likely Cause of GOP Train Crash in Virginia
Mar 25 2019 // A trash truck driver who had marijuana in his system likely caused a fatal collision last year with an Amtrak train that was carrying Republican lawmakers, federal investigators concluded. The National Transportation...
Relationship Between Boeing, FAA Safety Regulators Under Scrutiny
Mar 25 2019 // Soon after Lion Air Flight 610 plummeted into the Java Sea last October, killing all 189 people aboard, Boeing Co. began to point gingerly toward mistakes the airline may have made. A preliminary report by Indonesian...
Investigation Found FAA Employees Warned of Boeing Influence Over Safety Approvals
Mar 19 2019 // Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees warned as early as seven years ago that Boeing Co. had too much sway over safety approvals of new aircraft, prompting an investigation by Department of Transportation...
H.W. Kaufman, Burns & Wilcox Canada Buy TRU Transportation Risk Underwriters
Mar 8 2019 // H.W. Kaufman Group and Burns & Wilcox Canada announced they have acquired Toronto-based TRU Transportation Risk Underwriters Ltd. (TRU), a Canadian managing general agent (MGA) with expertise in providing risk...
Recording Indicates Amazon Cargo Plane Crew Lost Control Seconds Before Crash
Mar 6 2019 // Recorded conversations by pilots on a cargo jet carrying packages for Amazon.com Inc. that crashed last month near Houston reveal they began losing control of the aircraft about 18 seconds before it slammed into a shallow...
NTSB: Second Black Box from Doomed U.S. Cargo Plane Found in Texas Bay
Mar 4 2019 // Searchers combing a shallow Texas bay have recovered the second of two flight recorders from a cargo plane hauling Amazon packages that crashed last week, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday, two days...
2 Fatal Tesla Crashes in Florida Trigger Federal Safety Investigations
Mar 4 2019 // U.S. authorities are investigating a fatal Tesla Inc. Model S crash in Florida last Sunday that killed the driver and caused a massive fire, the second fatal Tesla crash in the state this week being probed, the National...
Amazon Crash Points to Lax Safety for Cargo Operations Compared to Passenger Airlines
Feb 26 2019 // Passenger airlines in the U.S. have recorded a remarkable period of safety over the past 10 years. Not so the nation’s cargo planes. Five domestically registered aircraft have crashed since 2009 — killing 16...
3 Killed in Amazon Cargo Plane Crash Near Houston
Feb 24 2019 // A widebody cargo plane hauling packages for Amazon abruptly plunged out of the sky and slammed into a bay on Saturday as it was preparing to land in Houston. All three people on board were killed. The Boeing Co. 767-300,...
NTSB: Ohio Medical Helicopter Made ‘Sharp Left Turn’ Before Fatal Crash
Feb 14 2019 // An Ohio medical helicopter on its way to pick up a hospital patient made “a sharp left turn” before a crash that killed three people including the pilot last month, according to a preliminary federal...
Federal Preliminary Report on New York Limo Crash Offers No Cause Yet
Feb 13 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board’s probe of a fatal limousine crash in upstate New York has not yet identified a cause, according to a preliminary report released Monday, after weeks of wrangling between...
National Transportation Safety Board Investigating Worker Death in Maryland
Feb 12 2019 // Federal officials are investigating after a railroad worker was killed at a Baltimore, Md., railyard. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said by telephone that a Norfolk Southern worker was...
Planes, Trains, Autos, Trucks: ’10 Most Wanted’ Transportation Safety Improvements
Feb 4 2019 // Federal safety advocates are targeting three of the worst habits by drivers that kill more than 10,000 people a year: speeding, impaired driving and distractions from electronic gadgets. The U.S. National Transportation...
Federal Safety Investigators Sidelined by Shutdown Begin Heading to Crash Scenes
Feb 1 2019 // It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with a swerving tractor-trailer, igniting diesel fuel and killing seven people in a fiery crash. Now,...
Judge Seeks to End Standoff Over NTSB Access to Crashed Limo in New York
Jan 30 2019 // Federal safety inspectors went to court to remove a roadblock in their investigation of a limousine crash that killed 20 people nearly four months ago. Schoharie County Judge George Bartlett heard arguments Tuesday over...
Feds Upset Over Lack of Access to Limo in Fatal New York Wreck
Dec 27 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board told a New York prosecutor she has hampered the agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the limousine crash that killed 20 people in her rural upstate county, the...
Investigators: Driver Fatigue Contributed to Deadly 2016 Texas Bus Crash
Dec 5 2018 // A bus driver with “acute sleep deficit” failed to stay in his lane and caused his vehicle to careen out of control, resulting in a wreck that killed nine people and injured nearly 40 others in 2016, federal...
Safety Board Hearing Probes Fatal Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Explosion
Nov 15 2018 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigative hearing on Wednesday into the fatal engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that killed one passenger. Dallas-based Southwest has been under...
