An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., was approved by the House Tuesday.
A train derailment in Rosenberg is causing major traffic problems in the Richmond area Wednesday morning, according to the Richmond Police Department.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says the systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel are convenient but don’t improve safety because people who use them often pay less attention to the road.
A revised version of the House's aviation safety bill now has the backing of the National Transportation Safety Board, but the families of the 67 victims of last year's midair collision near Washington, D.C., still want to see tougher requirements to ensure reforms are implemented.
Federal investigators say one of only two air traffic controllers on duty at LaGuardia Airport cleared a fire truck to cross a runway just 12 seconds before an Air Canada flight touched down, leaving little time to avoid the collision that killed both pilots.
An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and injuring several others.
A train derailment in Rosenberg is causing major traffic problems in the Richmond area Wednesday morning, according to the Richmond Police Department.
The White House says it fired an NTSB board member for serious misconduct, and he says the claims are false.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.
Authorities say a single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in Georgia, striking three vehicles and leaving two people with minor injuries.
Federal safety officials have concluded that retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was not flying his jet when it crashed last month, killing him and six others.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the placement of a helicopter route so close to Reagan National Airport's secondary runway was a key factor in causing a midair aircraft collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C., a year ago.
Six people died when a business jet crashed during takeoff as a snowstorm moved in and visibility diminished in Maine.
So many things went wrong last Jan. 29 to contribute to the collision between an airliner and a U.S. Army helicopter that killed 67 people that the National Transportation Safety Board isn’t likely to identify a single cause at its hearing Tuesday.
A collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet killed 67 people near Washington, D.C. in January 2025.
The federal government says temporary rules imposed after last year's collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter to improve the safety of the crowded airspace around Washington, D.C., are being made permanent.
The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a flaw in the part that failed and contributed to the engine flying off a UPS plane before it crashed and killed 15 in November but at that point the plane manufacturer didn’t believe it threatened safety.
The Alaska Airlines pilot who was praised as a hero for safely landing a plane after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff in 2004 is suing Boeing because he believes the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew in past legal filings.
Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023.
Mexico's president says air traffic controllers lost communication for 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane on a medical mission before it crashed off the Texas coast.
Federal investigators are trying to determine why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others crashed shortly after takeoff in North Carolina.
The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms.
Two Black men who were fired by President Donald Trump from the National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board accused the administration Thursday of discriminating against them as part of a pattern of dismissing Black leaders.
UPS Airlines says a fleet of planes grounded after a deadly crash is expected to miss the peak holiday season due to inspections and possible repairs.
Frame by frame, six photos released by federal investigators capture horrifying images of ill-fated Flight 2976 as it turned into a fireball along a Kentucky airport runway.
Federal investigators have released photos of an engine flying off a doomed UPS cargo plane that crashed after an engine flew off, killing14 people in Kentucky two weeks ago.
Federal investigators say the loss of electrical power from a loose wire caused a huge cargo ship to lose propulsion and steering before crashing into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse last year and killing six construction workers.
Former colleagues are mourning three pilots killed in the UPS cargo plane crash near the Louisville, Kentucky, airport, as relatives of a badly burned man who was pulled from the wreckage confirm he’s also among the 14 who died.
Investigators say a repeating bell sounded as pilots tried to control a UPS cargo plane upon takeoff before it crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, this week.
A candlelight vigil has been held in Louisville, Kentucky, to honor the victims of a UPS plane crash and anyone else affected by the tragedy.
Federal investigators say a UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and its engine fell off just before a fireball crash after takeoff in Kentucky.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the owners of nearly 2,000 Learjets to urgently inspect their landing gear to make sure they won't collapse like they did in a fatal crash earlier this year involving a private jet owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil.
A recent United Airlines emergency landing appears to have been the result of a collision with a weather balloon over Utah.
Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the ground at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing.
Investigators have concluded that two experienced racing pilots deviated from their expected flight paths and never saw each other before a fatal midair collision in 2023 at the National Championship Air Races.
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie ahead of the board considering the largest railroad merger ever proposed.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport.
A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people.
A long list of things went wrong in January and contributed to the collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet over Washington, D.
Federal investigators say a small plane that crashed in 2023, killing the husband of former Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight for takeoff and impacted by winds.
The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem.
The National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman says heroic actions by the crew aboard an Alaska Airlines flight ensured everyone survived last year when the door plug panel blew out of the plane.
Safety experts recommend that the engines on Boeing’s troubled 737 Max airplanes be modified quickly to prevent smoke from filling the cockpit or cabin after a safety feature is activated following a bird strike.
The Air India plane crash that killed at least 240 people is just the latest aviation disaster this year.
The National Transportation Safety Board found a fuel leak and several improperly installed parts inside the engine of an American Airlines plane that caught fire after the plane landed in Denver in March.
Smoke that filled the cabin of a Delta flight as it took off from the Atlanta airport in February was so thick the lead flight attendant had trouble seeing past the first row of passengers and the pilots donned oxygen masks as a precaution.
The Mexican navy tall ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge had departed less than 5 minutes before its masts crashed into the historic span.
Federal officials have released images showing a helicopter as it broke apart midair and crashed in New York last month, killing six people.
The White House says the vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been removed from his position, a rare move that comes as the agency investigates more than 1,000 cases.
Six people were killed when a sightseeing helicopter broke apart and crashed into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey.
A New York City sightseeing helicopter has broken apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River, killing six people.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has told Congress that the agency must do more to ensure flying remains safe after a midair collision over Washington, D.
The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes.
On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board released a detailed report on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore caused by a collision with a ship.
The National Transportation Safety Board says a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska and killed all 10 people on board was half a ton overweight for the known or possible weather conditions in the area.
The Federal Aviation Administration says helicopters will be permanently banned from flying near Washington, D.
The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.
The National Transportation Safety Board says a cockpit voice recorder was not working on a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia in January and likely had not been working for several years.
A crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight in Toronto has highlighted the potential dangers of flying with a young child on an adult's lap.
Experts say a combination of training and technology were critical to all 76 passengers and four crew members surviving the fiery Delta Air Lines plane crash in Toronto.
Wyoming authorities have entered a highway tunnel to begin picking through the wreckage of a fiery multivehicle crash a day earlier.
The Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger airplane over the Potomac River in Washington killed 67 people.
An American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided on Jan. 29 as the plane prepared to land at Washington, D.
The impact area where a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia last week will hopefully reopen on Wednesday.
Authorities say they have recovered the remains of 55 of the 67 people killed in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.
Officials say preliminary data from the midair crash between an airliner and an Army helicopter showed conflicting indications about the aircrafts’ altitudes when they collided near a Washington, D.
At least seven people were killed and 19 were injured when an air ambulance crashed to the ground on a busy Philadelphia street, creating what witnesses described as a massive fireball and a chaotic street scene.
Investigators are seeking clues into this week's deadly midair collision, the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. almost a quarter century.
A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital is bringing renewed focus on the federal agency charged with investigating aviation disasters.
There were no survivors after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D.
A year after a panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max during flight, the nation’s top aviation regulator says the company needs to change its culture and put safety above profits.
Authorities say two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city.
In the wake of the devastating East End helicopter crash, the families of three victims have filed a lawsuit against the pilot, the touring company, and the helicopter's owner.
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a report detailing some of their findings in the aftermath of the East End helicopter crash that killed a pilot and three passengers earlier this month.
On Sunday night, a helicopter crash in Houston's East End claimed four lives, including a child, when it collided with a radio tower. The NTSB and FAA are investigating the incident, with debris analysis set to continue in Dallas.
A surveillance video has emerged showing the moments before a fatal helicopter crash in Houston's Second Ward, where four people, including a child, were killed.
Officials say four people aboard a tour helicopter were killed when it crashed into a radio tower in Houston and burst into flames.
Investigators say that air traffic controllers cleared one plane to take off after telling pilots of another plane to cross the same runway in Nashville last month.
The National Transportation Safety Board says California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons of water to put out flames after a crash.
A strike by the 33,000 factory workers who assemble some of Boeing’s best-selling planes would come as another blow to a company whose bottom line and reputation have taken plenty of hits this year.
A federal agency says it has recommendations for improving the safety of commercial aviation including air tours and air ambulances.
Federal Aviation Administration officials say the agency has doubled its number of enforcement cases against Boeing since a door plug blew off a 737 Max in midflight.
Boeing factory workers say they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet.
The fiery North Dakota derailment that burned for days early last month was the latest train crash to involve flawed tank cars the National Transportation Safety board has been trying to get off the tracks for decades.
A panel that blew off a Boeing 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight will be a key part of a two-day investigative hearing set for next week.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s daylong hearing on a 2023 Ohio train derailment near the Pennsylvania border is giving stakeholders plenty to think about.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation into the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and shape its conclusions about what the agency called a flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside.