The Latest Breaking News from the National Transportation Safety Board

How one tragedy illuminates a "collective inattention" to a "global trade machine"

Authorities have identified the six victims of a tragic plane crash in California, which occurred during foggy conditions and resulted in the small aircraft exploding into a fireball just 500 feet short of the intended runway

Air traffic controllers lost contact shortly after takeoff with the pilot of a light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington, authorities said on Monday.

A small private plane crashed Saturday in the Pacific about 40 miles west of Half Moon Bay, California, following an emergency call for help, killing two people aboard.

The operator of a limousine service involved in a crash that killed 20 people in central New York is going on trial

BALTIMORE — The two vehicles that collided last month on the Baltimore Beltway, ultimately killing six highway workers, were speeding before they crashed, causing one vehicle to enter an access point and work zone, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Police say the bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida's Gulf Coast

Research in recent years has pointed to more incidents of clear-air turbulence in the jet stream brought on by rising temperatures. Airline crews and passengers are feeling the effects firsthand.

Federal safety officials are investigating the role of a natural gas pipeline in a fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory