National Transportation Safety Board

Alcohol and traffic deaths

2013-05-15 12:42:00

The entire undergraduate student bodies of the Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Naval Academy combined. The population of Bel Air, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. The average attendance at a Hershey Bears hockey game (the highest in the AHL)....

Federal agency says lowering legal limit could cut DUI deaths

2013-05-14 17:09:43

Even moderate drinking before driving could become illegal if a federal safety panel's recommendation Tuesday is enacted eventually by the states. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states cut their thresholds for drunken driving...

Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash

2013-05-13 18:16:00

Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...

First of 10 new state medevac helicopters arrive

2013-02-26 16:25:15

Years after a multimillion-dollar contract to replace the state's fleet of aged medevac helicopters caused controversy in Annapolis, two newly purchased aircraft arrived Tuesday at the aviation command of the Maryland State Police. Four more are expected...

Derailment of CSX Corp. train carrying sulfuric acid causes scare in Cecil Co.

2013-02-21 17:17:59

Just before midnight Wednesday, three words brought a stream of emergency crews and hazardous materials units to a wooded corner of Cecil County just north of Interstate 95: liquid sulfuric acid. A train operated by CSX Corp. derailed about 11:45 p.m.,...

Ocean City banner pilot killed in plane crash in Worcester County

2012-07-19 19:36:38

A pilot working for an Eastern Shore company that flies advertising banners over Ocean City beaches each summer was killed Thursday after his plane crashed on a golf course in Worcester County, according to Maryland State Police. The pilot, identified by...

Mikulski, Watson tour Main Street Ellicott City

2012-10-22 06:18:00

About two months after a CSX train derailment took the lives of two young women and shut down Ellicott City's Main Street for almost a week, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Howard County Councilwoman Courtney Watson toured Main Street businesses in a...

Regulators shut down 26 bus operations along I-95

2012-05-31 18:06:08

After a yearlong investigation, federal safety regulators have closed 26 bus operations as "imminent hazards," including one that they said operated illegally in Maryland and another that ran 16 daily trips between Baltimore and New York City. The...

Ellicott City back on track one month after derailment

2012-09-19 05:55:00

One month after a train derailed in Ellicott City, taking the lives of two teenage girls, the community has rallied together to put the historic district back on track. "The community around here is the best," said Donna Delaney, an employee at Zebop,...

Derailment probe appears to focus on track condition

2012-09-05 15:21:00

Track conditions on a CSX Transportation railroad line appear to be the focus of a federal investigation into the train derailment that killed two women in Ellicott City last month. A preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety...

Ellicott City train derailment 911 calls depict stunned bystanders

2012-08-31 15:05:00

Four callers sounded stunned as they told dispatchers that a train had just derailed in downtown Ellicott City, but none reported seeing anyone near the Aug. 20 wreck that killed two 19-year-olds, according to 911 recordings released Friday by Howard...

After train derailment, supporters flock to Ellicott City

2012-08-27 10:21:00

When Ellicott City's Main Street re-opened to traffic Friday night, Mark Hemmis was watching the cars line up and drive by his restaurant. He said he couldn't remember the last time he had seen so many cars on the street; he certainly hadn't seen that...

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board on the scene where a small plane crashed killing three people on board.

2013-03-16 00:00:00

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Brice Banning examines the wreckage of a Cessna 182 that crashed near Rainy Pass March 4.

2013-03-11 00:00:00

A Yute Air Cessna 207, seen here in an older photo, made a forced landing after an engine failure near Tuluksak Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Company officials say none of the five people on board were injured during the incident.

2013-02-28 14:20:00