National Transportation Safety Board

The preliminary investigation into the death of an Amtrak conductor who fell from a train in Rhode Island last month found that the train was traveling about 40 mph at the time, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. Based on surveillance video from a local business, investigators found that two of the train’s exterior doors were open with the…

Authorities say one man is dead and another injured after their small plane crashed in New Hampshire. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident, which occurred in Charlestown around 6:20 p.m. Saturday, the FAA said. The two men were the plane’s only occupants. Local police say one of the men died at...

The pilot of an airplane that collided with another midair near Denver requested an emergency landing for engine failure, not knowing that his plane was nearly ripped in half.

The National Transportation Safety Board has found that obstructed views and problems with a system that alerts pilots to nearby planes combined to cause the midair crash of Alaska sightseeing planes that killed six people two years ago.

Federal safety officials are updating their investigation into the engine failure on a United Airlines plane that sent parts of the engine housing raining down on Denver-area neighborhoods last month

One of the deadliest accidents in recent U.S. maritime history was the fault of the owners of a dive boat whose lack of oversight resulted in a fire that swept through the vessel and killed all 34 people in their bunks below deck

Seven people, including an Alaska state lawmaker, died Friday when two small airplanes collided in midair near the airport in Soldotna, on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula

National federal safety regulators say actions by the owners of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri in 2018 and the U.S. Coast Guard contributed to the tragedy that killed 17 people

Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on a deadly plane crash earlier this month in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Paul Vidal of Westport, the pilot and sole occupant of the Cessna 150, was killed in the Nov. 4 crash at New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery. The plane nosedived, according to cellphone videos captured by eyewitnesses, and the force...

Federal safety officials say Boeing should redesign part of the casing on some engines to prevent the kind of accident that occurred when engine debris blew out a window on a Southwest Airlines plane and killed a passenger.

Federal investigators probing the deadly small plane crash into a New Bedford, Massachusetts, cemetery are collecting debris along with maintenance records, witness statements and more.

Federal officials have determined a bridge that collapsed and killed six people near Florida International University showed significant design errors and the state government should have conducted greater oversight because of the project’s complexity.

The National Transportation Safety Board called Wednesday for new seat belt requirements for limousines following a crash in upstate New York that killed 20 people.

The driver behind the wheel in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire in June told police hours afterward that he was reaching down to retrieve something when he hit the oncoming vehicles, according to a newly unsealed document. The New Hampshire affidavit unsealed Tuesday details the police investigation into the crash, which resulted in Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s arrest...

A helicopter pilot was seriously injured in a crash at an airport in Maine on Saturday morning.

A law enforcement official says investigators that examined the burned-out wreckage of a scuba diving boat haven’t been able to determine what ignited a fire that killed 34 people off the California coast, the Associated Press reported Friday.

A preliminary report released Thursday on the Conception diving boat fire confirmed that all six crewmembers were asleep when flames started to engulf the vessel in the early morning hours off the Southern California coast, leaving 34 people dead.

The crew of a scuba diving boat that sank off the coast of Southern California made several attempts to rescue the 34 people who were trapped below decks by fire, but intense flames drove them back and all perished, federal authorities said Thursday.

National Transportation Safety Board member Jennifer Homendy addressed the media Tuesday to talk about the board’s approach to investigating the fatal boat fire in Southern California that is to believed have killed 34 people who were aboard the vessel.