Metro Red Line Crash Victims Honored With Plaque
WASHINGTON — The nine people killed in a Metrorail crash in June 2009 in northeast Washington will be honored with a plaque near the crash site ...
WASHINGTON — The nine people killed in a Metrorail crash in June 2009 in northeast Washington will be honored with a plaque near the crash site ...
Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.19.2012
How safe are those monorails at the Miami International Airport for the nearly 9,000 passengers who use them every day? Apparently not very.
Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 03.11.2012
On both sides of the Pacific and in diverse countries with all types of economies, traffic accidents are a public health issue that cannot be ignored.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.18.2011
AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- When someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what's being said – even if you're in the d...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.14.2011
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) criticized the National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday for recommending a ban on text...
Robert Davey | Posted 01.15.2012
The National Transportation Safety Board sent a letter Nov. 9 to Pinnacle Airlines, parent company of Colgan Air, regarding the recent discovery of em...
Christine Negroni | Posted 01.10.2012
It's apparent that the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board is a beauty. I've heard people describe her as "angelic." Here's her photo...
Bloomberg | Posted 12.18.2011
Two airliners landed in error at Washington’s Reagan National Airport March 23 after the lone tower controller on a midnight shift fell asleep and r...
Christine Negroni | Posted 12.07.2011
A recent headline-grabbing incident in Japan is another wake-up call for accident investigators and cockpit designers alike. Listen up, Boeing.
AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- The only senator opposed to a bill to toughen federal safety regulation of oil and gas pipelines said Wednesday he's willing to work wit...
AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.08.2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The survivor of a midair collision in Alaska last week that killed her boyfriend, who was piloting the other plane, managed ...
Robert Davey | Posted 09.16.2011
The crash of TWA Flight 800 happened fifteen years ago today, on July 17, 1996, at 8:31 p.m. eastern daylight time. The 25-year-old Boeing 747-100 had...
Posted 07.24.2011
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board released its findings Tuesday into the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens...
AP | By MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The driver of a bus in a horrific weekend crash that killed 15 people in New York City should not have been able to get behind the whe...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
My middle-school teacher Paul Wesche once told me that the word assume could be broken down to into three parts ass - u - me, as in - to assume ...
AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge's approval of a $200 million settlement fund for victims of a Metrolink commuter train crash was finalized this we...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The regional airline industry says safety is its top priority, in part because accidents are bad for business. But pilot unions and...
David Cay Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011
Do you know whether you live, work, shop or play near a high-pressure pipeline like the one that recently blew up in San Bruno, killing eight people, burning 60 more, destroying 120 homes and leaving a crater 40 feet deep?
AP | SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A faulty electronic circuit that caused a deadly Metro crash last summer was symptomatic of an "anemic safety culture" at the D.C. ...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
In bringing the official investigation into the Hudson River landing of USAirways flight 1549 to a close on Tuesday, the NTSB did not conclude the ditching seen 'round the world was a miracle.
Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011
If the cause of the crash is determined to be a flight controller's mistake or a malfunction of the navigation equipment at the Russian airport, it could reignite the Polish-Russian conflict.
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
What reads like fiction in the newspaper is actually painfully true. The article profiling American Eagle pilot Timothy Martins in this month's issue of Air Line Pilot magazine by contrast, is not.
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011
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Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
The crash this morning of an emergency medical helicopter in Tennessee that killed three people is another tragic reminder of the crisis in medical aviation.
AP | Posted 05.11.2012