Planes Landed as DC Controller Slept
Two planes were forced to land without guidance or clearance from the control tower at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, DC, because the air traffic supervisor was asleep, federal officials...
View ArticleSnoozing Controller's Excuse: 'Stuck Mike'
The air traffic supervisor who fell asleep early Wednesday at Reagan National Airport, forcing two planes to land on their own , was suspended yesterday. Federal officials say the veteran controller...
View ArticleMisaligned Rivets Found on Ruptured Southwest Jet
A federal investigation has revealed possible manufacturing flaws behind the mid-flight fuselage rupture of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 earlier this month. National Transportation Safety Board...
View ArticleRiskiest Part of Flight Might Now Be on Ground
"America's skies are the safest they have ever been," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told reporters this week, and the stats back him up: Deaths from accidents in US commercial aviation have...
View ArticleMost Dangerous Part of Oil Jobs: Driving Home
You know what's more dangerous than working on an oil rig? Driving home from one. More than 300 oil and gas workers have died in car crashes in the past decade, making it the top cause of death in a...
View ArticleOhio Train Derailment: 'Like Sun Exploded'
Life imitating Super 8 ? National Transportation Safety Board investigators are probing a train derailment that caused a fire and several spectacular explosions in Columbus, Ohio, early yesterday...
View ArticleDetails Revealed of Near-Collision Close to JFK
Investigators have released chilling details of a near-catastrophe close to New York City's JFK airport early last year . An American Airlines Boeing 777 came within seconds of crashing into an Air...
View ArticlePolice Copters Collide, 6 Hurt
Two police helicopters collided in the Los Angeles area yesterday, leaving five officers and a civilian with minor injuries. Investigators believe the crash occurred when the rotator blades touched of...
View ArticleNTSB Confirms Jenni Rivera Died in Plane Crash
The US National Transportation Safety Board is confirming that Mexican singer Jenni Rivera was indeed killed, along with six other people, in the Learjet crash early yesterday in Monterrey's mountains....
View ArticleNTSB: Ignition Locks for All Drunk Drivers
Every state should require all convicted drunken drivers, including first-time offenders, to use devices that prevent them from starting a car's engine if their breath tests positive for alcohol, the...
View ArticleBoeing's Dreamliner Faces Probe After Fire, Brake Scare
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is having a really nightmarish week. Air safety officials launched a formal probe into the long-delayed plane yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reports, after a series of...
View ArticleWithout Answers, 787 Probe Could Stretch Into 'Weeks'
The bad news keeps coming for Boeing, whose 787 Dreamliner fleet remains grounded—US investigators still don't know what caused the battery fire in a Jan. 7 fire in Boston, reports Reuters . The...
View ArticleYou Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying
Knock on wood, but the US hasn't seen a fatal commercial jetliner crash in exactly four years —a new record. And no stat encapsulates just how safe flying has become more than this one: A US passenger...
View ArticlePilot Texting Linked to Fatal Air Crash
Texting while flying may have been a major factor in the 2011 crash of an emergency medical helicopter, according to National Transportation Safety Board investigators. Pilot James Freudenbert died...
View ArticleNTSB Wants to Drop Drunk-Driving Limit to .05%
How much can you legally drink before getting in a car? The National Transportation Safety Board thinks the answer right now is "too much," so this morning it voted to lower its recommended legal blood...
View ArticleNew Bridge Collapses; NTSB Warns Many More at Risk
The nation's bridges and overpasses are proving particularly vulnerable to having their support systems knocked out, with a highway overpass in Missouri becoming the latest victim, reports the AP . The...
View ArticleFlight Tried to Abort Landing Seconds Before Crash
Some news from the cockpit voice recorder of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 is finally in: the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San...
View Article10 Killed in Alaska Air Taxi Crash
All nine passengers and a pilot were killed yesterday in Alaska's worst aviation accident in more than 25 years. A de Havilland DHC-3 Otter air taxi crashed just after 11am at the airport in Soldotna,...
View ArticlePilots: SF Airport Was a Crash Waiting to Happen
"It was only a matter of time before something like this happened." That's one pilot's take on the headline-grabbing Asiana Airlines crash that left two people dead and 182 injured. The San Francisco...
View ArticleAsiana Pilot: Light Blinded Me at 500 Feet
Clues to what may have caused the Asiana Airlines crash this weekend continue to emerge . The latest: The plane's pilot said that while flying at 500 feet, he was blinded by light, investigators say....
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