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NASCAR is responsible for a 2007 airplane crash that occurred in Sanford, Fla., and left five people dead, federal officials allege. National Transportation Safety Board officials accused the stock car racing organization and the two pilots of the airplane of not taking sufficient precautions to prevent the deadly accident, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel said Thursday. NTSB officials said the Cessna 310R that crashed into a Sanford residential neighborhood July 10, 2007, had an electrical...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 29, 2008, the Court of Federal Claims awarded Marjorie Murtagh Cooke over $466,000 in economic and liquidated damages, holding the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) liable for willfully violating the Equal Pay Act with respect to Ms. Murtagh Cooke. The Equal Pay Act requires employers to provide equal pay to persons performing the same job, regardless of gender. Ms. Murtagh Cooke was and to date still is the only female to have...
The top bird experts in the world are trying to identify what type of bird took down US Airways Flight 1549, which crashed in the Hudson River. Pieces of the wreckage are now in the hands of top investigators. The black boxes went to the National Transportation Safety Board, the engines to the manufacturer's experts, and a bird feather to a Smithsonian museum.Last year, a staff of four took in samples for 4,600 bird-plane collisions at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington....
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) today was officially selected to participate in the investigation of US Airways Flight 1549 being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent U.S. government agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. AFA-CWA represents US Airways flight attendants, including the three flight...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) issued the following statement: As the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) continues the investigation into the explosion that occurred in a Rancho Cordova neighborhood on Christmas Eve, PG&E is committed to providing investigators with all information that will assist them in determining the cause of the accident. "The community deserves answers," said Jack Keenan,...
By Alan Levin WASHINGTON -- Federal accident investigators on Tuesday charged that the air-ambulance industry and its regulators have moved too slowly to halt the spate of accidents that has made 2008 the deadliest year in emergency medical helicopter history. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) voted for the first time to put safety enhancements for air-ambulance flights on its annual "Most Wanted" list of suggested improvements. Nine air-ambulance helicopters have crashed...
By Alan Levin The pilots of an American Airlines flight carrying 185 passengers were forced to make an unusual emergency landing last month in Chicago with limited ability to control the jet after they lost electrical power, according to newly released information from a federal investigation. The Boeing 757 skidded off a runway at O'Hare International Airport on Sept. 22, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said. Although none of the 192 people aboard was injured, the pilots...
By Alan Levin The engineer of a Los Angeles commuter train that collided head-on last month with a freight train sent a text message only seconds before the deadly impact, possibly as he passed through a red signal, investigators reported Wednesday. The collision killed 25 and injured 135 people Sept. 12 at the start of rush hour on a Friday afternoon. Engineer Robert Sanchez, who died in the crash, had sent and received dozens of text messages while on duty that day, the National...
The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that a report on a 2006 incident involving broken runway lights in Miami was erroneous. NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said the report posted Monday on the board's Web site represented an incomplete investigation into several broken runway lights at Miami International Airport on Dec. 26, 2006, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said. The report alleged that the pilots of British Airways Flight 209 were responsible for breaking the lights...
The fatal crash of an emergency medical helicopter in Maryland Saturday shows the need for safety improvements in such flights, U.S. officials say. Four people were killed when a Maryland State Police chopper on a nighttime emergency flight carrying car crash victims came down in a suburban Washington park during foggy weather. It was the eighth such fatal medical helicopter crash in 12 months, CNN reported Tuesday. Those figures have prompted officials from the National Transportation Safety...
