The working group consists of seven experts, including a psychiatrist specializing in risk analysis and three investigators from the French aviation inspection authority who specialize in human factors.
After the Sept. 7 crash killed 43 people, including the members of a top Russian hockey team, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also announced he will personally oversee the crash investigation.
FAA alleges that MIT offered a fiberboard box containing 33 electronic devices to FedEx for transportation by air from Cambridge, Mass., to Seattle on Aug. 25, 2009.
Since 2000, 130 school-age pedestrians (younger than 19) have died in school transportation-related crashes with 56 (43 percent) between the ages of 5 and 7.
The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed Aug. 19 to a two-step increase in bridge and tunnel fares that is smaller than originally proposed, but still a 56 percent increase over five years. The American Trucking Associations is trying to stop it.
The National Impaired Driving Crackdown that continues until Sept. 5 is trying to get impaired drivers off the road. Not drinking and driving tops the National Safety Council’s safety tips for the holiday weekend.
Air Navigation Service Providers will have to use downlinked aircraft identification for at least half of the flights in the core area of Europe starting in 2012.
Experts will clear up myths surrounding CSA –- the federal motor carrier safety system on which CVSA's upcoming annual conference is focused -– and help attendees cope with sleep apnea, gas detection challenges, slips and falls, and crane mishaps.
Citing the San Bruno explosion in September 2010, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said safety of gas transmission in high consequence areas has improved but may need additional mandates.
The survey findings show that the increasing use of social media and mobile technologies to get disaster information and to seek help should cause response agencies to adjust their procedures to use social media more to engage with people in times of disaster.
The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety will offer Spanish-language materials in September and says the Focus360° theme emphasizes that campaign materials "will help organizations promote a full-circle approach to preventing distracted-driving incidents."
It denied a petition seeking lap and shoulder belts for all seats on all school buses, saying "we have not found a safety problem supporting a Federal requirement for lap/shoulder belts on large school buses, which are already very safe."
Cmdr. Malcolm McLellan was lead investigator of the October 2008 sinking of the fishing vessel in Amchitka Pass, Alaska, which killed seven crew members, and he developed a communication action plan that changed the way the organization handles formal investigations.
For aircraft equipped with an ice detection system, the new rule mandates that the system alert the crew every time they need to activate ice protection.
The 2011 North American Inspectors Championship took place in Orlando this monthin conjunction with the American Trucking Associations' National Truck Driving Championship.
NTSB's chairman thanked more than 5,000 owners, operators, and builders of experimental amateur-built aircraft who have completed the survey by the Experimental Aircraft Association.
The Sept. 9 meeting of the NASA International Space Station Advisory Committee and the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel will focus mainly on the development of two commercial cargo vehicles the agency is considering.
The Champlain Bridge, a bottleneck on one of Canadian's busiest arteries, will be increasingly expensive to maintain in coming years, engineers warned. Quebec's premier wants the federal government to participate in choosing how to replace it.
During the Air Line Pilots Association International's 57th annual Air Safety Forum in Washington, D.C., Capt. Lee Moak sent a letter urging President Obama to issue a final rule.
The railroad industry has described the technologies involved as too expensive, with a total estimated cost to freight railroads over 20 years of at least $10 billion.