Tag: Plane Crashes

Acting National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart speaks during a hearing at the NTSB in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. Tests of pilots killed in plane crashes over more than two decades show an increasing use of both legal and illegal drugs, including some that could impair flying, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Hart said the board "is concerned about possible safety implications of increased drug use in all modes of transportation." He called the report "an important first step toward understanding those implications." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Study: More pilots testing positive for drugs

Joan Lowy · September 10, 2014 1:27 am

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert Sumwalt holds up a document during a hearing at the NTSB in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The NTSB was meeting to discuss UPS Flight 1354 plane crash. The UPS plane, an Airbus A300-600F, crashed shortly before dawn on Aug. 14, 2013, as it was preparing to land in Birmingham. It hit trees and a utility pole before slamming into a hillside and bursting into flames. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Safety board finds multiple errors in UPS crash

Joan Lowy · September 9, 2014 8:59 pm

FILE - In this March 2003 file photo, Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton, left, speaks accompanied by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo in Idaho. A report released Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 says the likely causes of a 2012 airplane crash that killed the head of the memory chip maker are a decrease in engine power during takeoff and the Appleton's ill-fated decision to turn the experimental plane around rather than make an emergency landing, federal investigators say. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Chris Butler)

Report: CEO made wrong decision before plane crash

Keith Ridler · September 9, 2014 8:06 pm

A Pro-Russian rebel looks at pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane near village of Rozsypne, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The Dutch team investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine says the crash was likely caused by the plane being hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft." The preliminary report published Tuesday by the Dutch Safety Board stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, but its findings appear to point to that conclusion. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

National Security

Wreckage scattered in Ukraine as inquiry released

PETER LEONARDMIKE CORDER · September 9, 2014 8:04 pm

Small plane crashes into Atlantic off Miami Beach

Small plane crashes into Atlantic off Miami Beach

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 9:24 pm

UPS, pilots’ union barred from air crash probe

UPS, pilots’ union barred from air crash probe

Joan Lowy · August 25, 2014 5:54 pm

DPS: 2 dead in North Texas plane crash

DPS: 2 dead in North Texas plane crash

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 2:51 am

One of relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 grieves at a hotel conference room in Beijing, China, Friday, April 18, 2014. A robotic submarine headed back down into the depths of the Indian Ocean on Friday to scour the seafloor for any trace of the missing Malaysian jet one month after the search began off Australia's west coast, as data from the sub's previous missions turned up no evidence of the plane.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese relatives pray over lost Malaysian plane

Margie Mason · April 19, 2014 3:00 am

FILE - In this April 7,2014 file photo, the chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston listens to a question from the media during a press conference about the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia. Houston has become the global face of the massive monthlong search operation off Australia's west coast to find the missing Boeing 777, which is believed to be resting somewhere on the silt-covered bottom of the Indian Ocean in a patch the size of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia’s Houston: Calm face of Flight 370 hunt

Margie Mason · April 18, 2014 9:08 am

A U.S Navy P-8 Poseidon prepares to takes off from Perth International Airport en route to rejoin the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in Perth, Australia, Friday, April 18, 2014. Investigators were analyzing data collected by a robotic submarine that completed its first successful scan of the seabed Thursday in the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane, but say tests have ruled out that a nearby oil slick came from the aircraft. (AP Photo/Theron Kirkman)

Energy and Environment

Sub scours ocean for missing Malaysian jet

Margie Mason · April 18, 2014 4:53 am

Malaysia Plane: Ocean Floor Images ‘Very Clear’

Malaysia Plane: Ocean Floor Images ‘Very Clear’

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 4:40 pm

In a Monday, April 14, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, operators aboard the Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the U.S. Navy and search coordinators said that a built-in safety feature aborted what was supposed to have been a 16-hour mission to create a sonar map of the ocean floor after only six hours. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC1 Peter D. Blair)

Robot sub makes first complete search for plane

Margie Mason · April 17, 2014 12:12 am