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NTSB calls for changes in wake of fatal 2008 bus crash
Victoria :: TX :: USA | about 9 hours ago
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Federal investigators called for tighter oversight of the passenger bus industry in the wake of a fatal Jan. 2, 2008, crash that killed a passenger after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The National Transportation Safety Board, in releasing its findings...
Tags: NTSB, U.S, Victoria, Houston, National Transportation Safety Board, Bluffton University bus accident, Disaster Accident
CSB calls Citgo July blast "significant near-miss"
Corpus Christi :: TX :: USA | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Chemical Safety Board on Wednesday called a July explosion at Citgo Petroleum Corp's Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery "a significant near-miss" for a widespread release of highly toxic hydrogen fluoride (HF) into a community. "It's a significant near-miss...
Tags: Citgo Petroleum Corp., Chemical Safety Board, Corpus Christi, CSB, significant near, Disaster Accident, Oil refinery, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Citgo, Acids, Fluorides, Environment, Independent agencies of the United States government, Hydrofluoric acid, Gasoline, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Chemical accident, Alkylation, Petrￃﾳleos de Venezuela S.A., National Transportation Safety Board, Sulfuric acid, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Hydrogen fluoride
NTSB calls for tougher passenger bus scrutiny
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility tool goes here Passenger buses that aren't built to U.S. safety standards should be taken off the road, the National Transporation Safety Board said Tuesday...The board recommended three agencies identify the companies operating substandard buses, put...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, National Transporation Safety Board, safety standards, U.S, passenger buses, Los Angeles, Bluffton University bus accident, Bus, Disaster Accident, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Law Crime
Commuter Rail Collisions Spur Takeover Talk
Washington :: WA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility The growing number of commuter rail collisions is one of the reasons the Obama administration proposed this week that the federal government take over safety regulation of the country's subway and light rail systems. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Deborah...
Tags: commuter rail, rail collisions, Washington, METRO Light Rail, Politics, National Transportation Safety Board, MBTA Commuter Rail, Disaster Accident
Bus crash vctim's relative demands action
Carthage :: MO :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The accident is one of a string of deadly U.S. bus crashes in recent years...Le's mother, Catherine Tuong Lam, immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Vietnam, where she had worked as an interpreter for a U.S. military contractor. The charter bus,...
Tags: bus crashes, Houston, puncture cause, North Texas, tire puncture, National Transportation Safety Board, texas bus
NTSB to answer questions about wayward NWA flight
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Answers to some questions about what happened in the cockpit of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 are expected later today...It also said the flight attendants who were on board are being interviewed in Minnesota today. Keith Holloway said: "I can say that...
Tags: Northwest Airlines, National Transportation Safety Board, Northwest Airline Airbus, Minneapolis, traffic controlers, San Diego, crew scheduling, laptops computers, personal laptops, company policy
Recorder may not be help in NWA flight mystery
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The cockpit voice recorder on board the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Twin Cities airport and was out of radio contact for 75 minutes might not shed much light on what was happening in the cockpit because it was an older model that retains...
Tags: northwest airliners, Northwest Airlines, San Diego, Minneapolis, airliners flight, traffic controllers, National Transportation Safety Board, Barack Obama, federal investigating, air traffic
NTSB releasing report on Alaska Ranger sinking
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Alaska Ranger sinking The National Transportation Safety Board says it will announce the probable cause of the sinking of the Alaska Ranger at a meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The National Transportation Safety Board says it will announce the probable...
Tags: Alaska Ranger, fishing boat, fishing vessel, Coast Guard Cutter Munro, National Transportation Safety Board, crew member, alaska fishing, Seattle
Helicopter crash investigation delves into records
Georgetown :: SC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Helicopter pilot Patrick Walters, 45, of Murrells Inlet, flight nurse Dianna Conner, 42, of Florence and flight medic Randolph Dove, 39, of Bladenboro, N.C., died. At a press conference this afternoon at the crash site in Georgetown County, National Transportation...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, medical helicopter, board member, member robert, Robert Sumwalt, crew member, Georgetown
Wrong frequency mave have affected crash
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility A U.S. official told a congressional panel Wednesday the pilot of a plane involved in a midair crash Aug. 8 may have misheard a controller radio frequency. Deborah Hersman , head of the National Transportation Safety Board, testified before the House...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, radio frequency, traffic control, air traffic, Washington
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