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The investigators' conclusions were troublesome but familiar: the Federal Railroad Administration announced last week that five workers involved in an April 6 commuter-train crash in Mount Vernon, N.Y., had used morphine, marijuana or codeine before the accident.
Just 14 seconds after Northwest Airlines Flight 255 took off from Detroit's Metro Airport last Aug. 16, it crashed into a highway embankment, killing 156 people. Last week the National Transportation Safety Board said "overwhelming evidence" points to pilot error as the cause of the accident. The agency said...
Texas Air's only major crash occurred last November, when a Continental DC-9 flipped over in a snowstorm while taking off from Denver, killing 28. Though investigators suspect that accident may have been caused by wing icing and pilot inexperience, the company's airlines have suffered numerous mechanical problems...
The safety of jets outside the U.S. varies from better to worse. Many airlines in South America, Africa and Asia adhere to standards lower than those in the U.S. But the northern European carriers, among them Lufthansa, KLM, SAS and Swissair, have been investing heavily in new planes and seem...
The shocking Aloha Airlines accident, in which the roof blew off a worn Boeing 737, has heightened doubts about management and maintenance. The Aloha episode is only the most dramatic of mechanical snafus that have ranged from clogged fuel filters to cracked turbine blades. For at least one airline, Eastern...