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  • **FILE** FBI agents and New York state police guard the reconstruction of TWA Flight 800 in Calverton, N.Y., on Nov. 19, 1997. Flight 800 exploded and crashed July 17, 1996 while flying from New York to Paris, killing all 230 people aboard. An FBI investigation has concluded that there is no evidence that the crash was the result of a criminal act. (Associated Press)

    'TWA Flight 800' filmmaker: 'Solid proof' aircraft was shot down

    Conspiracy theorists and eyewitnesses who insist that 1996 TWA Flight 800 was shot down have found a friend in a filmmaker, who's made a documentary including radar data that counters the government's official finding.

  • Medical helicopter crashes in Kentucky, killing 3

    A medical helicopter crashed about 100 miles south of Lexington, Ky., late Thursday evening, killing all three crew members who were aboard.

  • Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment near Rockview, Mo., on Saturday, May 25, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people. (AP Photo/The Southeast Missourian, Fred Lynch)

    Second bridge collapse sends NTSB to Missouri scene

    National Transportation Safety Board investigators are in Missouri looking for the reasons of a highway bridge collapse — the second such structure to give way in the past week.

  • Damaged rail cars lie on the ground near Rockview, Mo., on Saturday, May 25, 2013. Authorities say a highway overpass collapsed when derailed rail cars slammed into one of the bridge's pillars after two freight trains collided. (AP Photo/KFVS, Michael Mohundro)

    Missouri highway overpass collapses after derailed train cars hit supports

    A Missouri highway overpass that partially collapsed when rail cars smashed into one of its support pillars after a freight train collision was about 15 years old and in good condition but just couldn't withstand the impact, a sheriff said.

  • ** FILE ** In this video screen still image released by the Georgia State Police, Friday, May 3, 2013, actress Reese Witherspoon speaks with a Georgia State Trooper, in Atlanta. Her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, is seen at left being arrested for suspicion of being under the influence on April 19. (AP Photo/Georgia State Police)

    Feds mull dropping DUI level from .08 to .05

    Federal authorities are mulling recommendations that states drop the threshold that determines drunken driving from .08 to .05.

  • A piece of landing gear that authorities believe belongs to one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 was found wedged between a mosque and another building, in New York, on Friday, April 26, 2013. Police say the medical examiner's office will complete a health and safety evaluation to determine whether to sift the soil around the buildings for possible human remains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)

    NYPD: Part of 9/11 plane's landing gear discovered next to Islamic center

    A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.

  • A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a Terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, following a fire that started in one of the plane's lithium ion batteries. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

    NTSB probes safety testing of Boeing 787 batteries

    Federal regulators let Boeing write the safety conditions for the problematic battery system in its beleaguered 787 "Dreamliner," prescribe how to test it and carry out those tests itself, according to testimony and documents released at a hearing Tuesday.

  • ** FILE ** This photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed near Mosby, Mo., on Aug. 26, 2011. The pilot of an emergency medical helicopter may have been distracted by text messages when he failed to refuel his helicopter and misjudged how far he could fly before running out of fuel. (AP Photo/NTSB)

    Government probes case of texting helicopter pilot

    The pilot of a medical helicopter that ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all four people aboard, was distracted by text messages when he should have been conducting pre-flight checks, accident investigators said Tuesday.

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    JACOBS: Prepare for a fight on driverless vehicles

    A little over five years ago at the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge, competing teams of autonomous vehicles were creeping along at a 14-mph pace as they attempted to finish a 60-mile road course. Fast forward to the present day, and Google’s driverless cars have traveled over 300,000 road miles at traffic speeds without a single accident resulting from its advanced software. The pace at which the technology has reached the threshold of functionality and commercialization is astonishing.

  • A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a Terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, following a fire that started in one of the plane's lithium ion batteries. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

    Safety board probe: Boeing 787 battery fire was difficult to control

    An investigation of a battery fire aboard a Boeing 787 shows that mechanics and firefighters made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to put out the blaze through smoke so thick they couldn't see the battery.

  • NTSB says pilot lost control in OSU plane crash

    Investigators found no evidence of mechanical failure to explain why a pilot lost control of a small plane that nosedived into an Arkansas ridge, killing the Oklahoma State women's basketball coach and three others, according to a federal report.

  • TV production helicopter crash described

    A preliminary report on a fatal helicopter crash during production of a reality TV show north of Los Angeles says the craft suddenly pitched down and hit the ground about a minute after taking off in early morning darkness on Feb. 10.

  • TV production helicopter crash in Calif described

    A helicopter that crashed during a reality TV production this month suddenly pitched down and hit the ground about a minute after taking off in early morning darkness, a preliminary report said.

  • A line of new 787 Dreamliners park nose-to-tail at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., home to Boeing Inc.'s factory. The planes were grounded last month after a battery fire in one and smoke in another. (Associated Press)

    Batteries on Dreamliner not necessarily unsafe, NTSB says

    Despite a battery fire in one Boeing 787 Dreamliner and smoke in another, the batteries used to power the plane's electrical systems aren't necessarily unsafe — manufacturers just need to build in reliable safeguards, the nation's top aviation safety investigator said Wednesday.

  • Investigators work early on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the scene of an accident in which at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured Sunday after a tour bus carrying Mexican tourists careened out of control while traveling down a mountain road, struck a car, flipped and plowed into a pickup truck near Yucaipa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

    Bus passenger describes terror before Calif. crash

    A runaway bus careened down a mountain road without brakes and the driver called out to passengers to phone 911 before a violent crash with two other vehicles that killed eight people and injured dozens of others, a surviving passenger said Monday.

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