July 18, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON — President Bush announced Wednesday that he will nominate Marion Blakey to head the Federal Aviation Administration, reports a wire service. Blakey, 54, has been National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman since September 2001. She is a former...
July 17, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following railroad accident report today: Executive Summary: On Saturday, May 27, 2000, about 11:48 a.m., central daylight time, 33 of the 113 cars making up eastbound Union Pacific Railroad...
July 15, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation fatalities in the United States last year increased 0.6 percent over the total for 2000, according to preliminary figures released by the National Transportation Safety Board on July 12. For the year 2001, preliminary figures...
June 27, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today called on the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop safety requirements governing the loading and unloading of railroad tank cars, highway cargo tanks, and other bulk containers. The...
May 15, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued its Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements list for 2002. Since the last Most Wanted report, 11 recommendations have been removed from the list. In addition, Pipeline Excavation Damage...
May 9, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting to discuss items on its Most Wanted list of safety improvements and a highway crash that occurred in Tennessee in 2000. The Meeting will be held on May 14, 2002 at 9:30...
May 3, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released the following updated information on its investigation of the April 23 collision involving a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train and a Metrolink passenger train in Placentia,...
April 4, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman, Marion Blakey today warned that operator fatigue remains a primary cause of serious transportation accidents throughout the United States. “Many times and throughout all modes of...
April 3, 2002 | Headlines, NTSB
EUNICE, La. — A federal report released Tuesday blamed an inadequate Union Pacific Railroad inspection system for a fiery train derailment that forced the evacuation of 3,000 people in May 2000, a wire service reported. About 15 of the train’s 113 cars...
April 3, 2002 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of a Union Pacific train derailment was the failure of a set of joint bars that had remained in service with undetected and uncorrected defects because of the...
