All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public board meeting this week to determine the probable cause of the contact of the containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent bridge...
Nov 3 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board wants the owners of nearly 2,000 Learjets—which have long been associated with the rich and famous—to urgently inspect their landing gear to make sure they won’t collapse...
Oct 15 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Texas Insurance Agency in Laredo, one of the U.S.’s busiest international trade ports, specializing in cross-border trucking risk and insurance; as well as McAfee Insurance Agency...
Sep 29 2025 // The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens on Sept. 26 after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers.The new...
Sep 9 2025 // A steering control system component failure on a multi-purpose carrier resulted in a collision with a bulk carrier in the Houston Ship Channel in 2023, causing more than $1 million in damage, the National Transportation...
Jul 23 2025 // A tow pilot’s distraction caused by personal cellphone use resulted in a collision last year with moored barges on the lower Mississippi River, the National Transportation Safety Board said last week.The towing...
Jun 27 2025 // 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...
Jun 23 2025 // The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary...
May 7 2025 // A deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable, the National Transportation Safety...
Apr 17 2025 // The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of...
Apr 7 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is harshly criticizing Maryland officials for failing to conduct a risk assessment of the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it collapsed a year ago and is recommending that 30...
Apr 7 2025 // Standard market woes, captive growth, and the increased importance of navigating relationships with third-party administrators–insurance experts in the commercial trucking arena have helped their clients traverse a...
Mar 21 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is harshly criticizing Maryland officials for failing to conduct a risk assessment of the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it collapsed a year ago and is recommending that 30...
Mar 21 2025 // A series of chain-reaction crashes and a fire in a Wyoming highway tunnel that killed three people started when a pickup truck lost control and partially blocked traffic on the slick roadway, federal investigators said.It...
Mar 12 2025 // A report from the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urgently recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) permanently prohibit helicopter operations near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National...
Mar 7 2025 // Standard market woes, captive growth and the increased importance of navigating relationships with third-party administrators — insurance experts in the commercial trucking arena have helped their clients traverse a...
Feb 18 2025 // The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude readings in the moments before the crash,...
Dec 17 2024 // A Hawaiian Airlines flight crew’s decision to fly over a hazardous storm cell instead of deviating around it was the probable cause for hitting severe turbulence that injured passengers and crewmembers in 2022, the...
Dec 11 2024 // WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly crash of two vintage military planes at a 2022 air show in Texas was caused by a lack of proper planning to keep aircraft separated and relying instead on a “see-and-avoid...
Nov 20 2024 // The United States must address a growing public-health crisis over traffic deaths that remain significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said on...