Planes, Trains, Autos, Trucks: ’10 Most Wanted’ Transportation Safety Improvements February 4, 2019 By Alan Levin and Ryan Beene Federal safety advocates are targeting three of the worst habits by drivers that kill more than 10,000 people a year:...
Federal Safety Investigators Sidelined by Shutdown Begin Heading to Crash Scenes February 1, 2019 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with...
Safety Board Hearing Probes Fatal Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Explosion November 15, 2018 By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigative hearing on Wednesday into the fatal engine explosion on a Southwest...
Time to Upgrade Airline Black Boxes, Says Safety Board October 19, 2018 By Alan Levin The ubiquitous black boxes on airliners — designed to capture the sometimes gruesome words and sounds leading up to crashes...
National Safety Board Calls for Standards for Drugged Driving Tests October 18, 2018 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin U.S. transportation safety officials are sounding the alarm on drug-impaired driving, calling for state and federal regulators to do more...
U.S. Safety Agency Targets Pilot Fatigue with Technology, Stricter Work Rules September 26, 2018 By Alan Levin U.S. accident investigators probing a San Francisco incident last year in which a jetliner was mere feet from landing on...
3 Massachusetts Towns Rocked by Series of Gas Explosions, Home Fires September 14, 2018 By Andrew G. Simpson Three northern Massachusetts residential communities were rocked last night by dozens of gas-fueled explosions and fires that erupted within minutes...
Engine Flaws Similar to Southwest’s Found at Other Airlines July 27, 2018 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein Flaws in jet engine fan blades like one that cracked and broke loose in April, killing a Southwest Airlines Co....
NTSB Questions CSX Safety Procedures After Deadly South Carolina Train Crash July 13, 2018 By Meg Kinnard Federal investigators on Tuesday grilled train company executives about a deadly South Carolina crash that happened earlier this year, asking...
U.S. Safety Board Urges Seat Belts, Automatic Brakes on School Buses May 23, 2018 By Ryan Beene The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended for the first time that all new school buses in the U.S....