NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn’t use cellphone before crash
By JOAN LOWY The engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download data just before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, safety investigators…
Transportation safety
AP Essay: Of a plane still missing, and a planet still vast
By TED ANTHONY BANGKOK (AP) — The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn set sail from Argentina one December day, bound for Australia with five dozen souls aboard. Eight…
AP Exclusive: Fuel-hauling trains could derail at 10 a year
The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more than $4 billion…
W.Va. oil train derailment was 1 of 3 with safer tank cars
By JOHN RABY and JONATHAN MATTISE The fiery derailment of a train carrying crude oil in West Virginia is one of three in the past year involving tank cars that…
AirAsia plane carrying 162 lost; 3rd Malaysia airline shock
By ALI KOTARUMALOS and MARGIE MASON An astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia turned worse Sunday when an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy Indonesian…
FAA, industry launch drone safety campaign
By JOAN LOWY Alarmed by increasing encounters between small drones and manned aircraft, drone industry officials said Monday they are teaming up with the government and model aircraft hobbyists to…
SAFETY QUESTIONS AFTER ND OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT
By DAVE KOLPACK and JAMES MacPHERSON A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil…
Gov’t to require seat belts on large buses
By JOAN LOWY FILE – This March 2, 2007 file photo shows a charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio after it plunged off a highway ramp…