http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_National_Transportation_Safety_BoardFind stories, videos, and photos about U.S. National Transportation Safety Board from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:12:14 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_National_Transportation_Safety_Board14433Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. National Transportation Safety Board from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/27/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/27/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots Tuesday in an extraordinary letter in which the agency chastised the pair, saying they endangered the public by flying an hour and half without contacting controllers "while you were on a frolic of your own."Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/25/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/25/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal investigators have interviewed the pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said on Sunday.Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/22/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/22/airliner.fly.by/index.html#cnnSTCTextA Northwest Airlines flight from San Diego, California, overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by about 150 miles Wednesday evening, and federal investigators are looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed, or perhaps fell asleep.Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:43:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/21/taxiway.landing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/21/taxiway.landing/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal investigators trying to determine why a Delta Air Lines jet landed on a taxiway instead of the runway in Atlanta on Monday morning say the runway was illuminated, but that approach lights and a ground-based instrument that helps pilots line up with the runway were off.Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:30:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/22/transit.rail.alert/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/22/transit.rail.alert/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal safety investigators said Tuesday they fear flaws found in Washington's Metro subway system after a deadly crash this summer may endanger other transit systems, and they sent out an urgent recommendation asking that other rail operators check for similar problems.Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/08/ntsb.staff.cell.ban/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/08/ntsb.staff.cell.ban/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe new chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board announced a policy Tuesday banning agency employees from phoning or texting while driving on the job.Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:08:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/27/hudson.river.air.rules/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/27/hudson.river.air.rules/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe rules governing air traffic over New York's Hudson River need to be rewritten to prevent another mishap like this month's fatal collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, federal safety investigators said Thursday.Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:23:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/17/new.york.hudson.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/17/new.york.hudson.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal officials Monday clarified their description of what an air traffic controller at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport could have seen on radar just before a tour helicopter collided with a small plane over the Hudson River.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/14/new.york.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/14/new.york.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators probing last weekend's fatal aircraft collision over New York's Hudson River focused Friday on an air traffic controller, though union leaders angrily said the controller could have done nothing to prevent the crash.Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:54:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/ny.crash.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/ny.crash.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe co-pilot of a plane that crashed in Buffalo, New York, in February was feeling ill and had considered backing out of the flight, according to a cockpit voice recorder transcript released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board.Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:52:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/dc.metro.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/dc.metro.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe cause of a deadly Washington Metro subway crash last month remains a mystery, with one problem identified by investigators persisting even after engineers replaced a key part that was believed to be faulty, a top Metro official said TuesdayWed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/ntsb.train.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/ntsb.train.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextA Boston trolley operator killed in a crash last year likely had a sleep disorder and fell into a "micro-sleep" shortly before the collision, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Tuesday.Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:20:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/us.jetliner.damaged/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/us.jetliner.damaged/index.html#cnnSTCTextInspectors have found "nothing unusual" in the rest of Southwest Airlines' fleet of 737-300s after a football-sized hole in one of the jets forced an emergency landing, an airline spokeswoman said Tuesday.Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/13/ntsb.rail.recommendations/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/13/ntsb.rail.recommendations/index.html#cnnSTCTextIn the wake of a deadly June accident, the National Transportation Safety Board on Monday put out a rare recommendation for the Washington Metro to install a system that would automatically warn operators if train sensors behave erratically.Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:31:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/01/dc.train.crash.ntsb/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/01/dc.train.crash.ntsb/index.html#cnnSTCTextOfficials investigating last week's crash of two Metro subway trains said a system used to detect trains in the area of the accident had failed intermittently in the days immediately before the fatal crash.Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:26:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/30/ohio.runway.mishaps/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/30/ohio.runway.mishaps/index.html#cnnSTCTextA student controller was directing planes during two runway mishaps in the past month at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, apparently giving instructions that placed planes on possible collision courses, federal investigators say.Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:51:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/06/26/airbus.problems/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/06/26/airbus.problems/index.html#cnnSTCTextUnited States accident investigators are probing two recent failures of airspeed and altitude indications aboard Airbus A330s -- the same type of plane that crashed into the Atlantic nearly a month ago.Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/25/air.france.blackboxes/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/25/air.france.blackboxes/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators probing the deadly crash of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic are running out of time to find the flight data recorders which could prove crucial to working out what caused the disaster.Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:19:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/25/automatic.system.washington.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/25/automatic.system.washington.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe trains that crashed on the Washington Metro depended on a 33-year-old automated control system widely used in cities across the United States, according to the American Public Transportation Association.Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/08/new.york.hudson.crash.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/08/new.york.hudson.crash.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday will launch three days of hearings into the circumstances surrounding the US Airways Flight 1549 emergency landing on New York's Hudson River.Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:10:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/15/pilot.fatigue.buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/15/pilot.fatigue.buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextCo-pilot Rebecca Shaw traveled all night as a passenger aboard FedEx planes before she got on the commuter plane that nosedived into a house near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 passengers on an icy February evening.Sat, 16 May 2009 01:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/14/buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/14/buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe mother of the co-pilot who died in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York, in February, said Thursday that her daughter and the pilot were "being used as a scapegoat."Thu, 14 May 2009 21:21:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/faa.bird.strike/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/faa.bird.strike/index.html#cnnSTCTextAfter getting pelted by criticism from everyone from airline passengers to federal accident investigators, the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday reversed course and said it will publicly reveal its records on bird strikes.Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:41:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/ntsb.small.plane/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/ntsb.small.plane/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal safety officials want the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately ground a type of small sports aircraft, saying six of the planes have broken up in flight in the past three years, killing 10 people.Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:33:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/buffalo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe crew of a commuter plane that crashed outside Buffalo, New York, in February may have responded improperly to signs the plane was stalling, according to details of the investigation released Wednesday.Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:26:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/11/boeing.redesign/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/11/boeing.redesign/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal transportation safety officials Wednesday issued an "urgent" recommendation calling for a redesign of a component on some Boeing 777 aircraft engines -- a component blamed for two major mishaps in the past year.Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:21:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/23/copter.crash.birds/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/23/copter.crash.birds/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that a bird strike may have preceded the January 4 crash of a Sikorsky helicopter near Morgan City, Louisiana.Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:33:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/18/oil.tanker.pilot/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/18/oil.tanker.pilot/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe pilot of a tanker that crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge in 2007, causing a major oil spill, was under the influence of multiple prescription medications that impaired his judgment, federal officials said in a report Wednesday.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:06:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/16/buffalo.crash.ntsb/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/16/buffalo.crash.ntsb/index.html#cnnSTCTextTrailing what would become a fatal flight by some 27 minutes, the same kind of aircraft operated by the same airline traveled the same route last week and landed safely, the NTSB said Monday.Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:52:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/15/buffalo.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/15/buffalo.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextA commuter airliner that crashed Thursday in upstate New York, killing 50 people, underwent violent pitching and rolling seconds before impact, with passengers experiencing twice the normal force of gravity, a federal investigator said Sunday.Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:20:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/12/hudson.plane.geese/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/12/hudson.plane.geese/index.html#cnnSTCTextCanada geese got into both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 and forced the plane to ditch into the Hudson River last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:05:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/04/hudson.plane/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/04/hudson.plane/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that both engines of the US Airways flight that ditched last month into the Hudson River contained bird remains.Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:08:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/03/medical.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/03/medical.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board began four days of hearings Tuesday on how to stem the "drastic increase" in medical helicopter accidents.Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/24/california.pilot.welcome/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/24/california.pilot.welcome/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe pilot who made a treacherous crash-landing on New York's Hudson River look like a routine maneuver got a hero's welcome Saturday in his California hometown.Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:54:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/21/hudson.plane.engine/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/21/hudson.plane.engine/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators have found a single feather and evidence of "soft-body impact damage" on the US Airways jetliner that was ditched in the Hudson River near Manhattan last week.Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:49:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/hudson.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/hudson.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating not only what went wrong, but also what went right Thursday when a US Airways flight ended in the Hudson River without any deaths or major injuries.Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/crash.pilot.profile/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/crash.pilot.profile/index.html#cnnSTCTextChesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III was "the right guy at the right time at the right moment" to guide a jet safely onto the surface of the Hudson River, a neighbor and friend said.Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:43:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/chopper.crashes/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/chopper.crashes/index.html#cnnSTCTextFlying at night in poor weather conditions probably contributed to the crashes of three medical helicopters that killed 11 people in 2007 and 2008, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/22/colorado.plane.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/22/colorado.plane.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTextA problem with the landing gear, tire or brakes may have caused a Continental Airlines jet to veer off a runway into a 40-foot-deep ravine during its takeoff at Denver International Airport, a source told CNN Monday.Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:30:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/14/bridge.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/14/bridge.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal regulators said support plates that were about half as thick as they should have been were the likely cause of the August 1, 2007, bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people and injured 145.Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:43:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/16/chopper.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/16/chopper.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe rotor blades on a critical-care helicopter that crashed -- killing all four passengers -- likely clipped a guy wire, causing the blades to break off, an air safety investigator said Thursday.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846849,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846849,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsFederal investigators say they have found body parts amid the wreckage of a missing adventurer's airplane in the mountains of eastern CaliforniaFri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/train.crash.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/train.crash.probe/index.html#cnnSTCTextA Metrolink engineer driving a commuter train sent a text message about 22 seconds before the train collided with a Union Pacific freight train last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:34:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/30/ems.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/30/ems.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators are again on the scene of a fatal medical helicopter crash. Four people were killed Saturday night in suburban Washington when the chopper operated by the Maryland State Police went down in a park.Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/29/ems.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/29/ems.choppers/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators are again on the scene of a fatal medical helicopter crash. Four people were killed Saturday night in suburban Washington when the chopper, operated by the Maryland State Police, went down in a park.Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:26:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/16/california.train.collision/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/16/california.train.collision/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board said a Metrolink train that slammed head-on into a freight train Friday did not apply its brakes, according to preliminary data from the investigation.Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:08:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/08/texas.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/08/texas.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe bus that overturned Friday morning in northern Texas, killing 15 people, was equipped with a recapped tire on the right front in violation of safety rules, a federal investigator said Friday.Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:30:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/27/jet.emergency/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/27/jet.emergency/index.html#cnnSTCTextAustralian authorities have asked the country's national airline to check every oxygen bottle in its fleet of Boeing 747s after investigators said an exploding cylinder might have ripped a hole in one of the jumbo jets while it was mid-flight.Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:29:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/jet.emergency/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/jet.emergency/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Australian air safety agency is investigating Saturday the emergency landing of a Qantas Boeing 747 in the Philippines after a hole in the fuselage made the plane lose cabin pressure.Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:52:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1826066,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1826066,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it is investigating a near collision of airborne planes at Chicago's O'Hare International AirportThu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/crash.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/crash.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTextInadequate signage and traffic control devices on a Georgia interstate contributed to a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five college baseball players, federal investigators concluded Tuesday.Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:30:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/30/helicopter.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/30/helicopter.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe midair collision of two medical helicopters in Arizona that killed six people Sunday is part of a "disturbing" national tendency, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Monday.Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/10/sleepy.pilots/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/10/sleepy.pilots/index.html#cnnSTCTextResponding to recent accidents linked to pilot fatigue, federal safety officials hope to reduce airline pilots' logging 14-hour days.Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:57:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/22/wing.panel.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/22/wing.panel.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal investigators found cracked wing fasteners on a US Airways plane that lost a wing panel over Maryland in March, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:27:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/cockpit.windows/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/cockpit.windows/index.html#cnnSTCTextRegulators have largely ignored a series of dangerous incidents in which cockpit windshields in commercial airliners shattered in midflight, sometimes forcing emergency landings, according to an American Airlines pilots' group.Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/27/plane.incident/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/27/plane.incident/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that it is investigating an incident in which a panel separated from the wing of a Boeing 757 while it was in flight last week.Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:06:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/01/nc.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/01/nc.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextSix people were killed Friday when a small plane crashed into the front yard of a home while attempting to land in fog and low visibility in Mount Airy, North Carolina, authorities said.Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:55:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/bay.oil.spill/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/bay.oil.spill/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe crew of the ship that ran into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the water last week has retained lawyers and is not complying with requests for interviews from the National Transportation Safety Board, a board member said Wednesday.Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:55:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/10/bay.bridge.spill/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/10/bay.bridge.spill/index.html#cnnSTCTextA National Transportation Safety Board team was on its way to California Saturday to probe why a container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earlier this week, spilling 58,000 gallons of oil into the water.Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:18:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/09/runway.safety/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/09/runway.safety/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe National Transportation Safety Board has released dramatic animation of two runway near-collisions this year to illustrate what the agency says is the need for improvements in runway safety.Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:53:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/16/ntsb.unmanned.vehicles/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/16/ntsb.unmanned.vehicles/index.html#cnnSTCTextPilot error was to blame in the April 2006 crash of an unmanned aircraft, despite the fact no pilot was on board, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its accident report issued Tuesday -- the NTSB's first-ever investigation into an incident involving a drone.Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:15:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.afghan.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.afghan.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextA 2004 crash that killed everyone on board -- three crew members and three U.S. troops -- was caused by pilots from a Blackwater plane taking a low-level run through a mountain canyon in Afghanistan, testimony revealed Tuesday.Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:46:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/02/ntsb.chicago.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/02/ntsb.chicago.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextFederal investigators Tuesday blamed the pilot of a Southwest Airlines jet for causing the plane to skid off a runway at Chicago's Midway Airport in 2005, an accident that killed a 6-year-old boy.Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:29:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/08/23/runway.incursion.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/08/23/runway.incursion.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo airliners may have missed colliding by less than 40 feet on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, and federal officials are investigating, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/bridge.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/bridge.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators need to begin removing debris from the Mississippi River to further the investigation of the I-35W bridge collapse and the search for missing motorists, Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek said Monday.Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:28:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/03/bridge.structure/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/03/bridge.structure/index.html#cnnSTCTextInvestigators trying to figure out what caused Wednesday's massive bridge collapse are focusing on the southern end of the span, which "behaved differently" as it fell, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:40:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649423,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649423,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe investigation into the failure of the Minneapolis bridge is just beginning, but there are clues behind the collapseThu, 02 Aug 2007 22:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/helicopter.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/helicopter.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextEyewitnesses to the collision of two news helicopters in Phoenix, Arizona, in which four people were killed, told investigators they noticed no problems with either aircraft before the collision, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said Saturday.Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:28:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/10/controller.fatigue/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/10/controller.fatigue/index.htmlFatigued air traffic controllers contributed to four aviation mishaps in recent years, and may have been a factor in last year's Comair crash that killed 49 people, according to federal accident investigators.Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:48:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/27/blair.plane/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/27/blair.plane/index.htmlThe National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday said it was investigating what led a British Airways Boeing 747 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family on board to taxi beyond the runway at Miami International Airport.Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:14:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/21/bus.crash/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/21/bus.crash/index.htmlA fourth teenage girl died Tuesday at a hospital from injuries sustained when a school bus plunged off a highway overpass Monday in Alabama, Huntsville Police Chief Rex Reynolds said.Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:29:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/30/plane.crash/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/30/plane.crash/index.htmlThe lone air-traffic controller on duty at the time of a jet crash Sunday morning in Lexington, Kentucky, was working on only two hours of sleep, a National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman said Wednesday.Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:46:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/01/27/airplane.landings/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/01/27/airplane.landings/index.htmlThe National Transportation Safety Board is urging that commercial airplane pilots change the way they calculate stopping distances on slippery runways to avoid a crash, such as the one in Chicago that killed a child.Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:11:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/03/boat.overturned/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/03/boat.overturned/index.htmlA tour boat that sank to the bottom of New York's Lake George Sunday, killing 20 elderly passengers, did not have enough crew on board, authorities said Monday.Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/02/survivable.crashes/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/02/survivable.crashes/index.htmlThe apparent successful evacuation of all 309 people aboard an Air France jetliner that crashed Tuesday in Toronto is a dramatic illustration of a theme that the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has highlighted for years.Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:36:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/08/74166/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/08/74166/index.htmTHEY CALL IT pencil-whipping: doctoring computer entries, logbooks, and work cards so that vital maintenance and safety repairs seem to have been performed. When the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern D...Mon, 08 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT