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…
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended Thursday 68 bridges across 19 states be evaluated with a “vulnerability assessment” to determine their risk of collapse if involved in a vessel collision in the wake of last year’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Over the last year, the NTSB identified 68 bridges…
New details emerge in deadly D.C. plane crash New details emerge in deadly D.C. plane crash 02:34 The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to give an update on the midair collision over Washington, D.C. that killed dozens of people in January. The collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane left 67…
Smoke in plane cabin, close calls raise alarm – CBS News Watch CBS News 45,000 flights carry nearly three million passengers every day safely, so when something goes wrong it shakes us out of what we consider normal. But there’s no denying the string of recent airline incidents raise safety concerns. Kris Van Cleave gives…
One person died and another was injured when their helicopter crashed Thursday onto a frozen reservoir in southeast Idaho, authorities said. Multiple agencies responded to the Ririe Reservoir east of Idaho Falls in the late afternoon, the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. First responders traveled to the site using snowmobiles and found…
CBS News 24/7 Live The crew of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet over Washington D.C. might not have heard instructions from an air traffic controller to pass behind the plane, investigators said Friday. National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said a recording from the helicopter cockpit…
Recovery efforts for the remaining victims inside an aircraft that went missing near Nome, Alaska, are being dampened by “difficult conditions,” according to investigators. The wreckage of the Bering Air Flight 445 is on an ice floe that’s moving approximately 5 miles a day, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said at a news…