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NTSB cites fatigue, pilot error as factors in fatal UPS crash in Birmingham
2014-09-09 20:31:03| Trucking - Topix.net
At a board meeting Tuesday, the group unveiled the findings of its investigation into the early-morning crash of UPS 1354 just short of the runway at BHM. Captain Cerea Beal Jr. and First Officer Shanda Fanning were killed in the crash.
Feds: CEO made wrong decision before plane crash
2014-09-09 18:23:26| Electronics - Topix.net
Federal investigators say the likely causes of an airplane crash that killed Micron CEO Steve Appleton in 2012 are a reduction in engine power during takeoff and Appleton's ill-fated decision to turn around rather than make an emergency landing. The National Transportation Safety Board in a report released Monday said fire damage made it impossible to know if the engine power reduction was mechanical or a decision by Appleton.
Report on UPS Plane Crash to Focus on Pilot Errors
2014-09-09 08:58:04| Trucking - Topix.net
Federal investigators on Tuesday are expected to officially conclude that pilot mistakes and deviations from company safety rules caused the crash of a United Parcel Service Inc. cargo plane in Alabama last year, according to people familiar with the probe. But the National Transportation Safety Board's final report, these people said, likely will stop short of citing crew fatigue as a contributing factor in the accident that killed both pilots.
NH woman in deadly bike crash challenges bloodwork
2014-09-05 16:25:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Lawyers for an unlicensed New Hampshire driver charged with driving into a group of bicyclists, killing two of them, are seeking to suppress blood samples from evidence in her upcoming trial. Police said 20-year-old Darriean Hess of Seabrook was driving last September without a license, speeding and under the influence of drugs when she ran into the bicyclists in Portsmouth.
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CSX: Film crew denied track access before crash
2014-09-03 19:48:55| Railroads - Topix.net
Railroad company CSX Transportation says it twice denied producers of a movie about singer Gregg Allman the permission to shoot on the company's tracks before a freight train slammed into the film's crew in south Georgia, killing one worker and injuring six.
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