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Metro Red Line Crash Victims Honored With Plaque

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: 2009 Metro REd Line Crash, Video, Vincent Gray, District of Columbia, WMATA 2009 Crash, Wmata, Metro Red Line Crash, Metro, National Transportation Safety Board, Ntsb, DC News

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 ...

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FDOT Must Take a Hands-on Approach to Safety

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Monorail, Florida Dot, Miami International Airport, Fdot, Ntsb Report, Ntsb, Oversight, Safety Regulations, Safety, Miami News

How safe are those monorails at the Miami International Airport for the nearly 9,000 passengers who use them every day? Apparently not very.

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Driver Safety: Scooting Around the World

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Tom Hanks, Motor Scooters, Road Safety, Safety, Ntsb, Larry Crowne, Vietnam, United Nations, US Army, Suv, World Health Organization, America, Tracey Koehlmoos, World News

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.

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Both Sides Now: Iraq -- End of an Error

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: National Review, President Obama, Ntsb, Ann Coulter, Mitt Romney, Iraq War, Rick Santorum, Fox News, David Frum, Rick Perry, Mary Matalin, Newt Gingrich, Junk Food, Ron Reagan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

If the base can't embrace Mitt's switches and Newt's swagger, is it their fault or voters unhinged by Fox and Obama?

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NTSB Recommends Ban On Hands-Free Phones While Driving

AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Driving Hands-Free Phones, Ntsb Hands-Free Phones, Video, Hands-Free Phones Driving, Hands-Free Phones Ntsb, National Transportation Safety Board, Hands-Free Phones, Ntsb, Technology News

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...

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GOP Candidate Rails Against Safety Recommendation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: New Hampshire Primary, Video, Cellphone Driving, Cellphone Ban, New Hampshire Primary 2012, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, Ron Paul 2012, NTSB Cellphone Ban, Texting While Driving Ban, Ntsb, Politics News

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) criticized the National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday for recommending a ban on text...

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NTSB Takes Colgan Air to the Woodshed

Robert Davey | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Colgan Air, Aircraft Accident Investigation, Ntsb, Colgan Air Crash, National Transportation Safety Board, Colgan Air Crash Investigation, Politics News

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a letter Nov. 9 to Pinnacle Airlines, parent company of Colgan Air, regarding the recent discovery of em...

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Colgan Air Gets a Bitch-Slap from the NTSB. Ouch!

Christine Negroni | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Southwest Airlines, Dot, Colgan Air Crash, Faa, Ntsb, Hugh Russ, Marvin Renslow, American Airlines, Deborah Hersman, Pinnacle Air, Natca, New York News

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...

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Report Details Confusion In Sleeping Airport Controller Incident

Bloomberg | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Virginia, Ntsb, DC News

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...

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More On The ANA 737 Incident: Don't Touch That Dial

Christine Negroni | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Cockpit, Air Canada, Faa, Ntsb, All-Nippon-Airways, Civil Aviation Bureau, Loftleidir Icelandic Airlines, Boeing 737, Futoshi Osada, Airlines, Charles Billings, Dc-8, Travel Blogs, Travel News

A recent headline-grabbing incident in Japan is another wake-up call for accident investigators and cockpit designers alike. Listen up, Boeing.

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Rand Paul Wants Debate On Pipeline Safety Bill

AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Rand Paul Pipeline Safety Bill, Rand-Paul, Democrats, Rand Paul Oil Pipeline, National Transportation Safety Board, Ntsb, Video, Rand Paul, Science and Transportation Committee, Oil Pipeline Safety Bill, Oil Pipeline, Harry Reid, Natural Gas, Rand Paul Oil Pipeline Safety, Tea Party, Republicans, Green News

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...

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Midair Crash Survivor Landed Plane At Near Stall

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Midair Crash, Cessna, Survivor, Scott Veal, Anchorage, Airplane, Kristen Sprague, Alaska, Plane Crash, Ntsb, Kenai, Travel News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The survivor of a midair collision in Alaska last week that killed her boyfriend, who was piloting the other plane, managed ...

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TWA Flight 800: The Fifteenth Anniversary

Robert Davey | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Aviation, Air Disaster, Ntsb, Fbi, TWA Flight 800, New York News

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...

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What Caused The Ted Stevens Plane Crash?

Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Ted Stevens, Ted Stevens Death, Video, Ted Stevens Plane Crash, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Death, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, Ntsb, Ntsb Ted Stevens Death, Politics News

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board released its findings Tuesday into the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens...

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Sources: Bus Driver In NYC Crash Had Driving Privileges Suspended Prior To Accident

AP | By MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, Erik Williams, New York City, National Transportation Safety Board, Ntsb, Chinese American, Ophadell Williams, Andrew Cuomo, World Wide Travel, Connecticut, Nyc Bus Accident, Casino, Bus Crash, Mohegan-Sun-Casino, US News, New York News

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...

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Famous List-Making Magazine Full of Baloney on Airline Rankings

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. News & World Report, American Airlines, Ntsb, Jetblue, Airlines, United Airlines, Media News

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 ...

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LA Metrolink Victims Receive The Maximum Settlement

AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Metro, Connex, La Metrolink, Metrolink, Los Angeles Metrolink, Ntsb, Los Angeles News

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...

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NTSB Probes Safety Of Airline Partnerships

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ntsb, NTSB Airline Partnerships, NTSB Airlines, National Transportation Safety Board, Travel News

WASHINGTON — The regional airline industry says safety is its top priority, in part because accidents are bad for business. But pilot unions and...

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Playing With Fire -- The Sham of Pipeline Safety Regulation

David Cay Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Bruno, remappingdebate.org, PG&E, Safety, Utilities, Regulation, Pipelines, Ntsb, Politics News

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?

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Feds: Fatal D.C. Train Crash Symptomatic Of 'Anemic Safety Culture'

AP | SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DC Metro Crash NTSB, Ntsb Report, DC Metro Crash, d.c. Metro, Dc Metro, Ntsb, D.C. Metro Crash NTSB, Metro, D.C. Metro Crash, National Transportation Safety Board, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A faulty electronic circuit that caused a deadly Metro crash last summer was symptomatic of an "anemic safety culture" at the D.C. ...

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Hudson River Landing Illuminating But Not a Miracle

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Miracle on the Hudson, Ntsb, William Langewiesche, Deborah Hersman, USAirways Flight 1549, Dick Wood, New York News

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.

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The Mystery of Poland's Presidential Plane Crash Deepens

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Look-See Approach, Air Force One, Universal-Avionics-Systems-of-Tucson, PLF 101, Faa, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Greg Phillips, Icao, Katyn, Air Crash Invstigation, Tusk, Ntsb, Cockpit Voice Recorders, Polish Plane Crash, Jhn. M. Cox, Newsweek, Polish Presidential Plane Crah, Tu 154, Max Kolonko, Taws, Poland, Lech Kaczynski Dead, Crash Investigation, Rzeczpospolita, Putin, Smolensk, World News

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.

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ALPA and Airline Pilot Caught in a Whopper

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dowling College, 177th Fighter Wing, Faa, Ntsb, Nyfd, Alpa, Timothy Martins, Jim Hall, American Eagle, New York News

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.

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FAA, NTSB Investigate Near Mid-Air Crash Over SF

AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Near Collision, San Francisco Near Collision, Faa, San Francisco Near Miss, Near Miss, Ua 889, United Airlines 889, Ntsb, Los Angeles News

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EMS Helicopter Pilot Worries: 'If They Knew What I Knew, Even the Nurse and Paramedic Wouldn't get on Board'

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospital Wing, Faa, US Coast Guard, Helicopter Crash, Ntsb, EMS Helicopter, Air Ambulance, Politics News

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.

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