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Safety Board Blames California Diving Boat's Owner For Fire That Killed 34

6:03pm October 20, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The fire started in the boat's salon, where divers had plugged in phones and other devices. Investigators pointed to the lack of a night watchman as a reason for high casualty numbers.

Pilot training is some of the most rigorous of all modes of transportation. Elizabeth White (L) practices landings with instructor Megan Brown at the airport in Auburn, Ala.

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The Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash: Aviation Wrestles With Decades-Old Problem

9:39am June 23, 2020

by Russell Lewis

The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others in January has highlighted a decades-old problem in aviation: pilots continuing flights into bad weather rather than landing.

Police work around the scene of a helicopter crash that killed former NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in Calabasas, Calif., on Sunday.

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What We Know: The Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant And 8 Others

8:14pm January 27, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The Sikorsky S-76B helicopter was operating under "special VFR" (special visual flight rules) status, meaning its pilot had been granted a request to fly in challenging conditions.

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Tourist Seaplanes Collide In Alaska, Killing At Least 4

9:12am May 14, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

The planes both carried tourists from the cruise ship Royal Princess on sightseeing trips. Preliminary reports indicate a mid-air collision, the Coast Guard said.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia in 2018. The NTSB was unable to begin several investigatio

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Working Through Shutdown Backlog, NTSB Warns Accident Evidence May Be Lost

8:19am January 29, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Twenty-two accidents, including 15 plane crashes, weren't investigated during the partial government shutdown. Instead of visiting the site of the crash, examiners might just examine stored wreckage.

Fire investigators search the debris at a home where an explosion occurred following a gas line failure in September in Lawrence, Mass.

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Federal Investigators Pinpoint What Caused String Of Gas Explosions In Mass.

8:05pm November 16, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The National Transportation Safety Board says a natural gas company engineer made a major mistake in developing construction plans, resulting in a disastrous chain reaction.

The interior of a Tesla Model X 75D semi-autonomous electric vehicle is shown in January 2017. The company's autopilot system has been engaged at the time of a number of accidents, including a crash that killed the driver in California in March, but the c

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No Driver Input Detected In Seconds Before Deadly Tesla Crash, NTSB Finds

8:39pm June 07, 2018

by David Schaper

The driver of a Tesla Model X on autopilot died after it hit a barrier between a highway lane and an exit ramp. The NTSB found he didn't brake or have his hands on the wheel shortly before collision.

Tesla vehicles sit parked outside of a new Tesla showroom and service center in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2016.

NTSB: Tesla Booted From Crash Investigation For Not Following Rules

2:59am April 13, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has removed the high-tech car maker from a probe into the fatal crash last month of one of its vehicles in California.

Damage done to the Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey after a commuter train crash in September 2016. Federal investigators attribute this accident and one in New York to engineers' untreated sleep apnea.

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Federal Report Blames A Type Of Sleep Apnea For Train Crashes

11:30pm February 06, 2018

by David Schaper

The National Transportation Safety Board said two recent commuter rail accidents that killed one person and injured more than 200 others were caused by engineers falling asleep at the controls.

A photo provided by the Indiana State Police shows the wreckage from a small plane crash Saturday night in southeastern Indiana. An executive at the NTSB was among the three people killed when the Cessna crashed into the woods.

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National Transportation Safety Board Official Killed In Indiana Plane Crash

5:07pm December 19, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Paul Schuda was the director of the NTSB's training center in Ashburn, Va. He and two other people died when the pilot's Cessna crashed into the woods in southeastern Indiana.