March 22, 2009 The AP is reporting that a single engine turboprop plane has crashed while attempting to land at the airport in Butte, Montana. Landing 500 feet short of the airport, the Montana Standard reported in an online story…
Europe official: Air safety whistle-blowers hushed
Date: 3/17/2009 By MENELAOS HADJICOSTISAssociated Press Writer NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Civil aviation authorities are only told about 20 percent of dangerous flight incidents because pilots and air traffic controllers are afraid of losing their jobs or being prosecuted, a…
Search continues for missionary plane in Venezuela
Date: 3/6/2009 By RACHEL JONESAssociated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan rescuers are still searching for a small plane flown by a U.S. missionary that vanished two weeks ago in the jungles of southern Venezuela, an official with the country’s…
Search ends for NFL players lost off Fla. coast
Date: 3/3/2009 By CHRISTINE ARMARIOAssociated Press Writer CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard called off the search Tuesday for two NFL players and a third man lost at sea off the Florida coast after their boat capsized during a…
Engineer invited teen to operate locomotive
Date: 3/3/2009 By KEVIN FREKING and DAISY NGUYENAssociated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A commuter train engineer text messaged a promise to a teenage railroad fan — “I’m gonna do all the radio talkin’ … ur gonna run the locomotive”…
4 passengers sue Boeing in Denver crash
Date: 2/26/2009 By KATIE OYANAssociated Press Writer DENVER (AP) — Four passengers on a Continental Airlines jet that veered off a Denver runway in December have filed suit against the jet’s maker. The lawsuits filed in federal court in Denver…
2 dead, 1 missing after boat capsizes in SC river
Date: 2/19/2009 By BRUCE SMITHAssociated Press Writer LITCHFIELD BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A mother and daughter died and a third person was missing after a small boat carrying six people capsized only 15 feet from shore on a chilly South…
Feds cite poor information-sharing in ship crash
Date: 2/19/2009 By KEVIN FREKINGAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A medically unfit pilot, an ineffective captain and poor communications between the two were the cause of a November 2007 accident leading a ship to spill thousands of gallons of…
Man Hit by Train Awarded $2.3 million
Date: 2/19/2009 NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded $2.3 million to a man who was drunk when he fell into the path of a subway train and lost part of his leg. Dustin Dibble, 25, admitted he doesn’t even…