March 19, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on March 18.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of the collision involving a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority train with a maintenance...
March 14, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on March 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429...
November 27, 2007 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The following story by Gregory Richards appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on November 27.) NORFOLK, Va. — Reflecting sunlight that appeared to illuminate green in a train control signal led one Norfolk Southern Corp. freight train to collide with another in...
November 9, 2007 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on November 9.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six near runway collisions at San Francisco, New York, Ft. Lauderdale and other airports were narrowly averted in just the last six months leading the NTSB to highlight...
November 2, 2007 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on November 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Thursday, November 8, 2007, at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429...
September 12, 2007 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(The following report by Monifa Thomas appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on September 12.) CHICAGO — Federal safety investigators blamed last year’s CTA Blue Line derailment on poor track conditions that grew out of faulty inspections, falsified reports...
September 12, 2007 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on September 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today determined that the probable cause of the derailment of a Chicago commuter transit train in the summer of 2006 resulted...
August 6, 2007 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Larry King appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 6.) PHILADELPHIA — A potentially lethal mix of human error and inadequate warning systems loomed large in the head-on crash of two SEPTA trains in Montgomery County last summer,...
June 12, 2007 | Headlines, NTSB
(Thee Associated Press circulated the following on June 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Soon after a commuter train fatally struck two track maintenance workers in Woburn, the train dispatcher told her supervisor, “It was my fault,” federal investigative documents...
March 29, 2007 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on March 28.) WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board reaches its 40th anniversary on April 1. The NTSB opened its doors April 1, 1967. On that day, the Bureau of Safety...
