News tagged with 'NTSB'

For more than six years, the FAA has been told to order major airlines to fix the faulty window heaters aboard Boeing aircraft that spark fires and force emergency landings. The order may finally come next month.

The final report on the crash of Flight 3407, a Continental regional carrier, concludes that pilot fatigue and lack of attention and training contributed to the accident, which killed 50. The report comes as regional carriers dominate air travel in some regions.

The NTSB has concluded that engineer, Robert Sanchez, was responsible for a September 2008 commuter train crash in California that killed 25. Improving rail safety is now a priority of the board, including automated systems that stop a train when the engineer fails to.

What happened to Northwest Flight 188? It overshot its destimation by 150 miles this week and air-traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots for 78-minutes. The pilots say they were in a heated discussion. They've both been suspended from flying.

Federal safety investigators are considering screening commercial bus and truck drivers, as well as merchant ship pilots for sleep apnea - a disorder which involves disruptions in breathing during sleep.

The National Transportation Safety Board has found failures in train control systems audio frequency track circuits that allowed one train to plow into the back of another in Washington D.C. last June. Other areas around the country use the same technology, but no one has an accounting of how many.

Another medical helicopter crash kills three people Friday night, creating a sense of urgency that new NTSB recommendations be put into place to regulate the $2 billion growing industry.

The NTSB wants more pilot training and sophisticated equipment for medical helicopters to avoid the fatal helicopter crashes that have killed 35 people in the last two years.

Two air traffic controllers, on duty at the time of a collision of two aircraft over the Hudson River last weekend, have been suspended. One of them was reportedly talking to his girlfriend at the time of the collision, the other was not in the building. Nine people died.

The subway cars involved in a deadly crash in the nation’s capital Monday were cited as unsafe three years ago, but were never replaced because of the cost.  That information is emerging as 19 NTSB investigators search for clues into the cause of the rush hour wreck that killed nine people and injured 70.

Both conductors were text messaging just before a fatal train collision last September that killed 25 aboard a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train, the National Transportation Safety Board reports.  

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held the first of four days of public hearings in Washington, to address the rise in medical helicopter accidents.

Two medical helicopters on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, collided on Sunday, killing six and seriously injury one. Sixteen people have died this year in seven crashes, involving eight helicopters, according to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials.