The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report into the plane crash that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family and three others determined that Biffle was not flying the plane owned by his GB Aviation Leasing LLC company when it crashed on Dec. 18. Per the report released Friday, the plane was flown by…
Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been and the altitude readings were inaccurate. The details came out of the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings in Washington, where investigators…
Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday and aim to reveal new insights into what caused the crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people. The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses and investigators about how the actions of the…
NTSB report blames Boeing training, FAA oversight for Alaska Airlines door plug incident – CBS News Watch CBS News A report from the National Transportation Safety Board found issues with Boeing’s production process, training, documentation and safety culture, as well as the FAA’s oversight in a review following a midair door panel blow out of…
NTSB says Boeing, FAA share blame for door plug flying off Alaska Airlines flight – CBS News Watch CBS News The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing and the FAA both share blame for a harrowing incident last year when a door plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet. Kris Van…
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued new safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing following the 2024 incident in which a door plug flew off in the middle of an Alaska Airlines flight. “An accident like this only happens when there are multiple system failures,” NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said at a meeting…
The vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, who was appointed to the post by President Joe Biden late last year, has been fired, a senior White House official confirmed to CBS News. Alvin Brown’s ouster happened Tuesday. Brown, a Democrat who was the first African American elected mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, was appointed…