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2 months ago | 
stripes.com | Daniel Gilbert |Ian Duncan |Lori Aratani
A U.S. Park Police helicopter flies over wreckage in the Potomac River on Jan. 30, 2025. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) On a fall afternoon, a Boeing passenger jet had just been cleared for takeoff at Reagan National Airport when the pilot saw a Bell helicopter lift off in a direction that would cross the plane’s path.
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2 months ago | 
adn.com | Lori Aratani |Carol Leonnig |Ian Duncan |Michael Laris
On Tuesday night, just 24 hours before a deadly collision between a military helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport, a different passenger jet coming in for a landing at the airport alerted the tower it had to abort. The reason: risk of possible collision with a helicopter. A similar situation played out less than a week earlier, on Jan. 23, when a flight from Charlotte suddenly pulled out of its approach at National.
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2 months ago | 
adn.com | Ian Duncan |Lori Aratani |Spencer Hsu |Michael Laris
The airspace along the Potomac River where an Army helicopter and an airliner crashed Wednesday night poses some of the most complex challenges in the country for pilots, requiring them to rely on layers of procedures and electronic safeguards to avoid a catastrophe. Military and Coast Guard helicopters frequently fly low over the river, sharing the skies with planes on the heavily used takeoff and landing routes for Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
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2 months ago | 
adn.com | Ian Duncan
The Senate confirmed former congressman and television host Sean P. Duffy as transportation secretary Tuesday, installing a leader at a sprawling federal department that oversees safety and doles out hundreds of billions a year in infrastructure spending. The vote was 77-22. Duffy, 53, said during the confirmation process that President Donald Trump has directed him to focus on big projects that would improve the nation’s transportation system.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
adn.com | Ian Duncan |Patrick Svitek
The expectation that President-elect Trump and Republicans in Congress will seek to remove a lucrative tax credit for electric vehicles,which has already split the auto industry, prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to announce Monday that the state would seekto revive its own buyer-assistance program if the federal subsidy is eliminated.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
adn.com | Lori Aratani |Ian Duncan
Newly released transcripts of interviews with Boeing employees describe a chaotic push to finish building the 737 Max that suffered a midair blowout in January. Months after the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board has not fully untangled key moments in the plane’s journey through the factory outside Seattle last September, saying it has been unable to determine who opened or reclosed the panel that flew off the airliner.
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May 15, 2024 | 
finans.dk | Ian Duncan
15/05/2024 KL. 13:15 For abonnenter Boeing breached the terms of a settlement with the federal government to resolve a charge linked to the deadly crashes of two 737 Max aircraft, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday, opening the company up to potential criminal prosecution. Prosecutors charged the company in 2021 with defrauding federal safety Log ind Få adgang til FINANS - Overblik, inspiration og indsigt i dansk og internationalt erhvervsliv.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
adn.com | Ian Duncan
Federal safety standards issued Monday will require new cars to have automatic emergency brakes that can bring them to a complete stop without crashing or hitting pedestrians even at high speeds, saving hundreds of lives a year. Automakers will have until the fall of 2029 to comply, but officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said they expect the industry to be able to deploy the systems ahead of the deadline.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
adn.com | Michael Laris |Ian Duncan |Katie Mettler
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on electrical issues on the Dali container ship before it crashed into and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, board chair Jennifer Homendy said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Homendy said she and other investigators believe there is a connection between the lights going out on the ship, as seen in videos recorded just before the crash, and the vessel heading off course and into the bridge.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
abajournal.com | Ian Duncan
HomeSyndicatedNorfolk Southern reaches $600 million settlement…Transportation Law Norfolk Southern reaches $600 million settlement in East Palestine lawsuitNorfolk Southern announced Tuesday that it had agreed to a $600 million settlement to resolve a string of lawsuits the railroad faced after last year’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a resolution that lawyers say could help thousands of affected residents.
