All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2019 // Passenger airlines in the U.S. have recorded a remarkable period of safety over the past 10 years.Not so the nation’s cargo planes. Five domestically registered aircraft have crashed since 2009 — killing 16...
Feb 24 2019 // A widebody cargo plane hauling packages for Amazon abruptly plunged out of the sky and slammed into a bay on Saturday as it was preparing to land in Houston. All three people on board were killed.The Boeing Co. 767-300,...
Feb 14 2019 // An Ohio medical helicopter on its way to pick up a hospital patient made “a sharp left turn” before a crash that killed three people including the pilot last month, according to a preliminary federal report.The...
Feb 13 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board’s probe of a fatal limousine crash in upstate New York has not yet identified a cause, according to a preliminary report released Monday, after weeks of wrangling between...
Feb 12 2019 // Federal officials are investigating after a railroad worker was killed at a Baltimore, Md., railyard. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said by telephone that a Norfolk Southern worker was...
Feb 4 2019 // Federal safety advocates are targeting three of the worst habits by drivers that kill more than 10,000 people a year: speeding, impaired driving and distractions from electronic gadgets.The U.S. National Transportation...
Feb 1 2019 // It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with a swerving tractor-trailer, igniting diesel fuel and killing seven people in a fiery crash.Now,...
Jan 30 2019 // Federal safety inspectors went to court to remove a roadblock in their investigation of a limousine crash that killed 20 people nearly four months ago.Schoharie County Judge George Bartlett heard arguments Tuesday over...
Dec 27 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board told a New York prosecutor she has hampered the agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the limousine crash that killed 20 people in her rural upstate county, the...
Dec 5 2018 // A bus driver with “acute sleep deficit” failed to stay in his lane and caused his vehicle to careen out of control, resulting in a wreck that killed nine people and injured nearly 40 others in 2016, federal...
Nov 15 2018 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigative hearing on Wednesday into the fatal engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that killed one passenger.Dallas-based Southwest has been under...
Nov 1 2018 // Federal investigators determined that a broken rail caused the fiery 2017 train derailment in northwest Iowa that released 322,000 gallons of ethanol.The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that Union...
Oct 19 2018 // The ubiquitous black boxes on airliners — designed to capture the sometimes gruesome words and sounds leading up to crashes — need an upgrade, U.S. accident investigators say.In too many cases, the current two...
Oct 19 2018 // A motorist’s use of marijuana and a sedative led to a collision with a church bus that killed 13 people on the bus, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released on Oct. 16.According to the...
Oct 18 2018 // U.S. transportation safety officials are sounding the alarm on drug-impaired driving, calling for state and federal regulators to do more to tackle the growing problem as states grapple with prescription drug abuse and...
Oct 16 2018 // The day after a mourning community said last goodbyes to eight of 20 victims of a limousine crash – four sisters and four other relatives – the Senate’s top Democrat called on federal regulators to...
Oct 9 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board will examine federal oversight of the limousine industry as part of its investigation into a deadly New York state crash that killed 20 people in the worst U.S. transportation event...
Sep 26 2018 // U.S. accident investigators probing a San Francisco incident last year in which a jetliner was mere feet from landing on top of at least one other plane are poised to recommend new automated safety warnings and better...
Sep 12 2018 // A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board finds no apparent reason for a fatal plane crash last month in Brighton, Vermont.The Caledonian Record reports that it’ll likely be months before a...
Sep 10 2018 // A series of human errors led to a BNSF Railway train striking and killing two railroad workers in South Dakota last year, federal investigators said.The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on Sept. 6...