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Federal Agency: Blood Alcohol Limit For Drivers Should Be 0.05 Percent

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

(Updates with vote) WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The top U.S. transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blo...

Air Ambulance Pilot Texting Leads to Disaster

Christine Negroni | Posted 04.10.2013 | Crime
Christine Negroni

The pilot of an emergency medical helicopter was text messaging before and during the flight that ended in disaster near an airport in Mosby, Mo. in 2011.

NTSB: Tiny 'Fibers' May Have Played Role In 787 Battery Failure

Reuters | Alwyn Scott | Posted 04.13.2013 | Business

SEATTLE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating whether tiny fiber-like formations, known as dendrites, i...

NTSB: In Ferry Crisis, There Was No Warning For Passengers

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 01.26.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- The head of a crew scrambling to gain control of a high-speed ferry before it crashed into a Manhattan pier reported having no time to war...

Investigators Looking Into High-Speed Ferry Crash

AP | COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 03.12.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — The captain of a commuter ferry that crashed into a lower Manhattan wharf told federal investigators Thursday that the vessel had a m...

Plane En Route To FAA Safety Conference Crashes Into Home

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 01.14.2013 | Crime

JACKSON, Miss. — Roger Latham had considered taking a short flight Tuesday night in his small plane with his flying instructor and a couple of o...

Even More About Those AA Seats

Christine Negroni | Posted 12.04.2012 | Travel
Christine Negroni

Passengers think of airline seats mostly in terms of space and comfort (most often noticing the absence of both) but the news that American Airlines has grounded eight of the Boeing 757s in its fleet after some seats shifted in flight is all about safety.

Hundreds Of Barrels Of Oil Spill In Wisconsin

Reuters | Posted 09.27.2012 | Green

* Enbridge restarts 2 pipelines, including 670,000 bpd Line 6A * Line 14 pipeline remains shut, unclear when it will restart ...

Government Investigation Provides Damning Picture of the Kalamazoo Tar Sands Spill

Anthony Swift | Posted 09.10.2012 | Green
Anthony Swift

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) heard the major findings of its two-year investigation of the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill, which released more than a million gallons of corrosive tar sands into the Kalamazoo River watershed in July 2010.

NTSB: Enbridge's Neglect Of Pipeline Cracks, Slow Response Caused Huge Oil Spill

AP | JOHN FLESHER and DAVID RUNK | Posted 09.09.2012 | Green

DETROIT — The Canadian operator of an oil pipeline that ruptured in southwestern Michigan two years ago, causing the most expensive onshore spil...

Bus Driver Fell Asleep On I-95

AP | Posted 06.08.2012 | DC

RICHMOND, Va. -- The National Transportation Safety Board has released hundreds of documents in its investigation into a bus crash on Interstate 95 in...

Metro Red Line Crash Victims Honored With Plaque

AP | Posted 07.11.2012 | DC

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 ...

FDOT Must Take a Hands-on Approach to Safety

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.19.2012 | Miami
Spencer Aronfeld

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

Driver Safety: Scooting Around the World

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 03.11.2012 | World
Dr. Caroline Cicero

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.

Both Sides Now: Iraq -- End of an Error

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.18.2011 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgIf the base can't embrace Mitt's switches and Newt's swagger, is it their fault or voters unhinged by Fox and Obama?

NTSB Recommends Ban On Hands-Free Phones While Driving

AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.15.2011 | Technology

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...

GOP Candidate Rails Against Safety Recommendation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics

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

NTSB Takes Colgan Air to the Woodshed

Robert Davey | Posted 01.15.2012 | Politics
Robert Davey

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

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

Christine Negroni | Posted 01.10.2012 | New York
Christine Negroni

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...

Report Details Confusion In Sleeping Airport Controller Incident

Bloomberg | Posted 12.18.2011 | DC
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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...

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

Christine Negroni | Posted 12.07.2011 | Travel
Christine Negroni

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

Rand Paul Wants Debate On Pipeline Safety Bill

AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.28.2011 | Green

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...

Midair Crash Survivor Landed Plane At Near Stall

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.08.2011 | Travel

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

TWA Flight 800: The Fifteenth Anniversary

Robert Davey | Posted 09.16.2011 | New York
Robert Davey

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...

What Caused The Ted Stevens Plane Crash?

Posted 07.24.2011 | Politics

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