Alcohol Threshold Lowered by the State – NTSB Request The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday urged states to reduce their alcohol threshold for a driver to be considered legally drunk by nearly a half, to 0.05 percent blood alcohol from…
NTSB Seeks Stricter Tests On Boeing 787 Batteries
Federal safety officials are still going back and forth, and doing some finger-pointing, over the lithium-ion batteries that have proved so problematic on Boeing’s new 787 jets. The New York Times Friday had a story in which Deborah Hersman, the…
Flight crew to blame in 2006 “clipping” incident
Date: 9/30/2008 3:05 AM NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The flight crew of a Lufthansa jet was to blame for clipping another plane while taxiing at Newark Liberty International Airport in October 2006, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Investigators said…