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Investigators walk around rotor blades from a crashed helicopter on a burned hillside in Cabazon, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Three people were killed when their helicopter crashed into a hillside after colliding with another chopper as the team battled a wildfire, emergency officials said. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

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3 people were killed fighting a California wildfire after two helicopters collided

3:03pm August 07, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The helicopters were responding to a vegetation fire that spread from a nearby structure fire. One helicopter made a safe landing with no injuries, while all in the second helicopter were killed.

A Delta Air Lines plane is seen waiting in April at the Austin-Bergstrom International airport in Austin, Texas.

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A Texas airport worker died after being sucked into the engine of a Delta plane

2:07pm June 26, 2023

by Emily Olson

For the second time in nearly seven months, an airport worker was killed after being pulled into an operating jet engine. The latest incident occurred Friday night in San Antonio, Texas.

A BNSF engine is pictured in Chicago in 2022. A train operated by BNSF carrying corn syrup derailed in Arizona Wednesday.

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A train carrying corn syrup derails in Arizona

10:17am March 16, 2023

by Kaitlyn Radde

About eight train cars went off the tracks Wednesday evening in Mohave County, Ariz., near the California border. The incident follows a recent string of high-profile train derailments.

Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference on Oct. 3, 2019, in Windsor Locks, Conn. On Wednesday, Homendy, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said she is concerned about the risk that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles.

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NTSB head warns of risks posed by heavy electric vehicles colliding with lighter cars

4:20pm January 11, 2023

by The Associated Press

Jennifer Homendy, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board, expressed concern about the safety risks that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles.

An airline worker died on Saturday after being "ingested" into the engine of American Airlines Embraer aircraft, like the kind pictured here at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport in Dallas in June 2021.

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An airline worker died after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane, NTSB says

1:24pm January 03, 2023

by Emily Olson

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident with the Embraer 170 aircraft which killed an American Airlines worker on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala.

A row of crosses form a memorial along Highway 33 as police officers survey the scene a day after a crash killed nine people south of Coalinga, Calif., on Jan. 2, 2021.

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The NTSB wants all new vehicles to check drivers for alcohol use

5:50pm September 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

The safety board recommends all new vehicles be required to have systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving. A final decision is up to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers look over the scene of a fatal collision in March in Andrews County, Texas. A pickup truck crossed the center line of a two-lane road and crashed into a van carrying members of the University of the Southwest men

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NTSB now says a 13-year-old was not a driver in a Texas crash that killed 9 people

2:16pm July 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, investigators said.

An undated photo shows the scene where a tour helicopter crashed near the Na Pali Coast on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, in 2019.

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A Hawaii helicopter crash that killed 7 could have been prevented, investigators say

5:59pm May 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

U.S. investigators blamed the 2019 crash on the pilot's decision to keep flying into worsening weather, and they accused regulators of lax oversight of air tours that are popular with tourists.

Pilots Jerry Griffin (left) of the Birmingham Police Department and Jonathan Johnson of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office conduct a helicopter training flight using new virtual reality technology.

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New Virtual Reality Tool Aims To Reduce Aviation Crashes

10:32am February 15, 2021

by Russell Lewis

The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant highlighted an aviation problem: It's difficult for pilots to recover after entering clouds by mistake. New virtual reality technology aims to change that.

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Former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, shown here in 2018, were killed in a helicopter crash last year.

NTSB Says Pilot Had 'Spatial Disorientation' In Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash

2:09pm February 09, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Also contributing to the accident, the safety board said Tuesday, was the pilot's likely "self-induced pressure" to please a high-profile client and a bias toward continuing with the established plan.