January 4, 2006 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on January 3.) WASHINGTON — Kathryn O’Leary Higgins was sworn in today as a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Before joining the Board, Member Higgins was...
December 15, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(San Antonio television station KSAT posted the following article on its website on December 14.) SAN ANTONIO – The National Transportation Safety Board issued new safety recommendations Wednesday for railroad companies, 1½ years after a deadly train derailment in...
December 8, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on December 7.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Transportation Safety Board Member Ellen Engleman Conners has asked President Bush to withdraw her nomination for a second term as Chairman of...
November 30, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on November 29.) WASHINGTON — To prevent train wrecks like one in January that killed nine people and forced thousands from their homes for days in Graniteville, S.C., railroads...
November 30, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Leslie Miller on November 30.) WASHINGTON — Trains carrying poisonous gases should be required to go slowly through populated areas, say safety officials who investigated a crash that killed nine people...
November 28, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Trasnportation Safety Board issued the following news release on November 23.) WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, November 29, at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center,...
November 17, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on November 17.) WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has made all of its safety recommendations available to the public on the Internet. Since 1967, the Safety Board...
November 16, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 15.) WASHINGTON — Airline pilots need better warning systems to avoid collisions at increasingly crowded airports, federal accident investigators said Tuesday in announcing transportation safety...
November 10, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on November 9.) WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. in its Board Room and Conference Center...
July 27, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(Reuters circulated the following article on July 26.) WASHINGTON — U.S. crash investigators blamed a fatal Amtrak crash last year in Mississippi on the failure of freight railroad Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) to properly...
