News tagged with 'and Other Mass Transit Accidents'

Tart-tongued Carnival Exec Retires The chief executive of Carnival Cruise Lines has announced his retirement from the cruise business. Bob Dickinson, the man who developed the cruise industry into a force to be reckoned with on Wall Street, announced the other day that he will retire from his post at the e

Plane Crash Takes Five Lives A small plane that was attempting to make an emergency landing crashed into two homes this morning at around 8:40 a.m. Five people were killed and three others were seriously injured. Only two names of the dead have been released, one being Dr. Bruce Kennedy, who was a Dayton

Air turbulence is responsible for 58 injuries each year in the United States. These injuries occur not as the result of a crash but rather due to violent movement of the airplane while it is airborne. Most injuries can be avoided by simply wearing a seatbelt, even when the seatbelt sign is turned off. Turbulenc

The crash of a Cessna 414 in Greene County, Tennessee Thursday killed four residents of the Tampa Bay area. John Saunders, founder and president of an investment and employee benefits company, died in the crash along with the pilot, David Jochman, and two employees of Saunders Advisory Group, Laura Jones and Hani Bout

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of last year's Amtrak Auto Train derailment near Crescent City, Florida, was a heat-induced track buckle that developed because of inadequate CSX Transportation track-surfacing operations. These operations included the misalignment of the curve

According to an article published in Tuesday's USA TODAY, a major jetmaker failed to report vital information about a near accident in 1997 that may have prevented the fatal November 2001 crash of an American Airlines A300 jet. Airbus, a global manufacturer of commercial airliners, reportedly failed to inform governme

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered all U.S. airlines to increase their weight estimates for passengers and checked baggage. The directive comes after airline safety officials revealed that January's crash of a US Airways Beech 1900D turboprop commuter plane in Charlotte, North Carolina may have been

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials investigating last week's crash of US Airways Express Flight 5481 are focusing on a mechanic's adjustment of one of the plane's cables connecting the control column to the elevators on the aircraft's tail. According to an article in Tuesday's Charlotte Observer, th

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are focusing their investigation of the US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane that crashed Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina on maintenance conducted on the aircraft two nights before the accident. According to a NTSB spokesperson, the Beech 1

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials investigating Wednesday's crash of a US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane in Charlotte, North Carolina have found the airliner's vital voice recorder and flight data recorder. According to NTSB head John Goglia, the voice recorder contains 34 minutes of "v

A US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane crashed at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport Wednesday morning, killing 19 passengers and two crewmembers. Flight 5481 was departing for Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport when it crashed on takeoff. A spokesperson for US Airways told aviation offici

A truck collided with a commuter train outside of Los Angeles Monday, killing one person and injuring dozens more. According to witnesses, the truck's driver, whose name has not been released, was attempting to bypass a railroad crossing at an intersection 10 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, ignoring the lower

More than 80 people aboard a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship became ill during a four-day trip to the Bahamas last week, the fifth vessel to report an outbreak in recent weeks. According to a health official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the illness is similar to the Norwalk-like virus that h

More than 200 passengers aboard Carnival Cruise Lines' Conquest fell ill last week due to a gastrointestinal disorder that has plagued the cruise industry over the last three months. Physicians say the Norwalk-like virus is believed to be the same that has sickened hundreds of passengers aboard at least three cruise

According to a new draft report published by Federal investigators this week, a lack of grease on a tail fin mechanism caused the January 2000 Alaska Airlines crash that killed 88 people. The report, which will be reviewed Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board, says insufficient lubrication of the tail f