National Transportation Safety Board

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Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence

DETROIT (AP) — Cecelia Crocker’s body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life — one that she doesn’t otherwise remember. At only 4 years old, Crocker was the […]

2013/05/15

Tougher drunken driving threshold weighed

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal accident investigators were weighing a recommendation Tuesday that states reduce their threshold for drunken driving from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05, a standard that has been shown to […]

2013/05/14

Big 4 cellphone carriers unite on anti-texting ads

NEW YORK (AP) — The country’s four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T’s “It Can Wait” slogan to blanket TV and radio […]

2013/05/13

Study: Distracted driving deaths underreported

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Kelsey Raffaele’s last words were over a cellphone to a friend: “I’m going to crash!” The car she was driving had clipped a snow bank and spun into oncoming traffic, where […]

2013/05/07

Planes collide near LA: 1 crashes, 1 lands, 1 dead

WESTLAKE VILLAGE (AP) — Two small airplanes with a combined four people aboard collided in midair over the Southern California mountains, sending one crashing into a rocky ridge and killing its pilot while the second was able to maneuver a belly-flop landing.

2013/04/30

NTSB: Pilot’s texting contributed to copter crash

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texting by the pilot of a medical helicopter contributed to a crash that killed four people, federal accident investigators declared, and they approved a safety alert cautioning all pilots against using cellphones or other distracting devices during critical operations.

2013/04/09