National Transportation Safety Board

Adventure travel grows despite occasional disaster

NEW YORK (AP) — When Carole Rosenblat was growing up in the ’70s, her parents’ idea of an adventurous vacation was “driving cross-country from Michigan to California in a non-air-conditioned car with three kids.” Her idea is “Jumping out of planes — things like that.”

2013/02/26

Carnival Triumph cruise ship, Mobile, Alabama. (AP Photo)

Cruise passengers became comrades on trip home

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — When their cruise ship lost power, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph could have been selfish and looked out only for themselves and their loved ones. Instead, they became comrades in a long, exhausting struggle to get home.

2013/02/15

Passengers slog home after ‘horrible’ Gulf cruise

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Passengers finally escaped the disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph. Some checked into hotels while others took buses or charter flights home after five numbing days at sea on a cruise liner paralyzed by an engine-room fire.

2013/02/15

Coast Guard: Disabled cruise ship is moving again

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The miserable passengers aboard the ill-fated Carnival cruise ship were slowly making their long journey home Thursday after crews replaced a broken tow line, another bad break that briefly set the ship adrift off the Alabama coast.

2013/02/14

Coast Guard: Cruise ship stopped; towline broken

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The crippled Carnival cruise slowly making its way back to dry land suffered another setback Thursday when a tow line snapped, setting the ship adrift once again as crews worked to repair it.

2013/02/14

Carnival cancels 12 more cruises on troubled ship

HOUSTON (AP) — Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems.

2013/02/13

Fire damaged battery casing from the Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner showing damage from a "thermal runaway" chemical reaction. (Photo: NTSB/AP)

NTSB: 787 battery approval should be reconsidered

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government should reassess its safety approval of the Boeing 787 lithium ion batteries, the nation’s top accident investigator said Thursday.

2013/02/07

At least 8 people killed in Calif. bus crash

YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — The company that organized a bus trip that ended with a deadly crash in the mountains of Southern California has offered its condolences to all of those who have been affected.

2013/02/04

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg looks at the Seastreak Wall Street ferry damaged after it hit a pier, New York City (AP Photo)

High-speed ferry strikes NYC dock; dozens injured

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, seriously injuring 11 people.

2013/01/09

An ignition interlock device by Smart Start. (Photo credit: SmartStartInc.com)

NTSB: Use ignition locks for all drunken drivers

WASHINGTON (AP) – Every state should require convicted drunken drivers, including first-time offenders, to use devices that prevent them from starting a car’s engine if their breath tests positive for alcohol, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

2012/12/11

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