NTSB News
Near Misses Subject of U.S. Senate Aviation Safety Hearing
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week on a series of troubling close-call aviation safety incidents that raised questions about Federal Aviation Administration air traffic ...
NTSB: Railroad Automatic Braking System Needs Upgrades to Prevent Derailments
The automatic braking system railroads were required to install several years ago needs improvement to better prevent collisions, federal safety investigators said in a report Wednesday. The National ...
Tourist Duck Boats Get New Rules Aimed at Improving Safety
Five years after 17 people died when a duck boat sank on a Missouri lake, the U.S. Coast Guard has issued new rules for the amphibious World War II vessels retrofitted for tourist excursions. But the ...
FAA to Hold Runway Safety Meetings After Near Misses
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it will hold runway safety meetings at 90 airports over the next few weeks after a series of troubling close-call aviation incidents. Earlier ...
Congress Deadlocked on New Railroad Safety Rules
Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hearings about the potential for railroad crashes to trigger even larger ...
Automated System Recommended for Railroad Track Flaws to Prevent Future Derailments
Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal ...
New Railroad Rule Would Require Alert to First Responders Within 10 Miles of Derailment
Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene, because the dangerous chemicals trains carry might require ...
Thousands of Steel Frame Bridges Across U.S. Need Corrosion Inspection
Investigators looking into the collapse of a Pittsburgh, Pa., bridge want transportation officials nationwide to examine more than 10,000 other bridges with similar construction to ensure they don't ...