The Latest Breaking News from NTSB

Modern flight recorders can hold more than 1,000 pieces of information about an aircraft.

Records with the National Transportation Safety Board show the charter company was involved in two non-fatal accidents

An investigation continues for an Alaska pilot who waited for hours in an icy lake for rescue on the wing with two young family members for possible misuse of his student license

FAA acting head Chris Rocheleau said that "clearly something was missed" by the agency before the fatal Potomac River midair collision.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says if investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the fatal midair collision over the nation’s capital in January, then aviation safety regulators should have recognized the problem

Congress is holding a hearing Thursday about the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft

The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes

NTSB says there was ‘no excuse’ for missed safety check and calls for urgent assessment of 68 bridges across US

The NTSB identified bridges with ‘unknown levels’ of collapse risk including famous landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in California, and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York