Federal investigators released dramatic photos Thursday of an engine flying off a doomed UPS cargo plane that crashed two weeks ago, killing 14 people in Kentucky, and said there was evidence of cracks in the left wing’s engine mount. The MD-11 plane only got 30 feet off the ground, the National Transportation Safety Board said,…
An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot indicted for trying to shut off a passenger jet’s engines mid-flight in 2023 recalled the scary moment he slipped out of reality after eating “magic mushrooms.” Former airline captain Joseph Emerson said he takes full responsibility for the night in October 2023 that changed his life. “I had no intention…
Authorities were investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a passing train Sunday in Montana, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The conductor worked for BNSF Railway, the agency said in a post on social media. BNSF Railway operates one of the largest freight railway networks in the U.S. The incident…
Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion of the Titan submersible in June 2023….
The family of one of the 67 people killed earlier this year when an American Airlines plane and a United States Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the government and the airlines involved in the crash. It accuses them of failing to recognize the warning signs after more than…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the aircraft liable in his widow’s wrongful death lawsuit. Following an evidentiary hearing earlier…
Passengers who weren’t buckled aboard a Delta Air Lines flight to Europe were violently thrown into the ceiling and back down to the floor in July when the plane encountered severe turbulence in a thunderstorm over Wyoming, according to a new report on the incident. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that passengers endured…
Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary report Wednesday on the July 19 incident that happened…
Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary report Wednesday on the July 19 incident that happened…
Helicopters flew higher than allowed or close to landing and departing airplanes almost daily at Washington’s Reagan National Airport in the year before January’s deadly midair collision, a CBS News data analysis of recently released Federal Aviation Administration data reveals. On the same routes as the Army Black Hawk involved in the collision, helicopters came…