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NTSB sends team to investigate Akron, Ohio plane crash

November 11, 2015

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) team has been dispatched to Akron, Ohio to investigate yesterday’s accident involving a small plane that crashed into an apartment building, killing all nine people on board.

NTSB: Plane that crashed in Alaska was overweight

October 23, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that the probable cause for the crash of a de Havilland DHC-3 in Soldotna, Alaska, on July 7, 2013, was the operator’s failure to determine the actual cargo weight, leading to the loading and operation of the airplane outside of its weight and center of gravity limits.

NTSB: Safety drills were done on doomed cargo ship El Faro

October 21, 2015

In its continuing investigation of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas, the National Transportation Safety Board has developed the following factual information:

NTSB issues second update on British Airways engine fire at Las Vegas

October 6, 2015

As part of its ongoing investigation into the September 8, 2015, engine fire during takeoff of British Airways flight 2276, a Boeing 777, at McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, the NTSB today released the following investigative update.

Despite experience, crew of doomed plane made fatal errors

NTSB: 11 second delay was difference between life and death

September 10, 2015

The probable cause of the crash of a business jet in a Boston suburb last May was a series of errors by an experienced flight crew, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a public meeting this week.

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Kentucky truck driver declared an imminent hazard to public safety

July 30, 2015

After a nine-vehicle, six fatality crash on June 25, 2015 along Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) declared Kentucky-licensed truck driver Benjamin Scott Brewer to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce.

A hard landing, injuries, could have been prevented

July 27, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that compliance with Southwest Airline’s stabilized approach criteria could have prevented a hard landing at LaGuardia International Airport in New York that injured eight passengers.

Fatal plane crash caused by an accident, not “hostile acts”

July 15, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that a National Airlines Boeing 747 freighter crashed on takeoff from Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, because the five large military vehicles it was carrying were inadequately restrained.

Poor communication led to Houston Ship Channel collision, says NTSB

Agency reiterates recommendation for a vessel separation policy

June 15, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the Miss Susan, a shallow draft towing vessel with two barges, and the Summer Wind, a deep draft bulk carrier, collided on March 22, 2014, because the towing vessel crossed the Houston Ship Channel, impeding the passage of the bulk carrier that was transiting inbound, which could only transit within the channel.

NTSB: Amtrak engineer wasn’t texting at time of crash

June 11, 2015

As part of its ongoing investigation into the May 12, 2015, derailment of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia, the National Transportation Safety Board said an analysis of the engineer’s cell phone records showed that no calls, texts, or data usage occurred during the time the engineer was operating the train.