https://www.scmp.com/rss/524396/feed The latest news and top stories on the National Transportation Safety Board. An independent US government investigative agency based in Washington D.C., the NTSB is dedicated to determining the probable cause of civil transportation accidents and issuing safety recommendations. Its main areas of focus include investigating aviation, highway, marine, pipeline, railroad and commercial space incidents. The NTSB is recognised for its impartial investigations and significant contributions to... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US officials on Tuesday played down speculation that distracted air traffic controllers might have contributed to a deadly collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Two pilots were killed in the runway crash late on Sunday, which crushed the cockpit of the Bombardier plane and heavily damaged the emergency vehicle. Media reports said investigators were investigating whether airport traffic controllers were distracted by an odour issue on a United... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347774/us-officials-downplay-controller-distraction-new-york-laguardia-plane-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347774/us-officials-downplay-controller-distraction-new-york-laguardia-plane-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:39:44 +0000 Reuters Reuters Delta Air Lines said ⁠on Tuesday it would ⁠suspend special services for ⁠members of Congress, citing the impact of a partial government shutdown that has disrupted US air travel. “Due to the impact on resources from the long-standing government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend ‌specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. “Next to safety, Delta’s no. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment,” the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347765/delta-suspends-special-treatment-congress-government-shutdown-sows-airport-chaos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347765/delta-suspends-special-treatment-congress-government-shutdown-sows-airport-chaos?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:03:50 +0000 Lucy Quaggin Lucy Quaggin US President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Wednesday that it would rescind a rule rewarding electric vehicle production – eliminating the so-called “fuel content factor” – the latest in a series of actions rolling back federal support for EVs that analysts say could leave the US further behind in a global race increasingly shifting in China’s favour. The move comes as the US struggles to compete with China’s rapid growth in the EV sector, marking another setback for America’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343942/does-trumps-retreat-electric-vehicle-policy-risk-ceding-ground-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343942/does-trumps-retreat-electric-vehicle-policy-risk-ceding-ground-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:12:50 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg At least six people have died after a private plane crashed while taking off from Bangor International Airport in Maine on Sunday evening, local authorities said. There were six people on the plane according to the flight manifest, the statement from Bangor police said. “No one from the incident was transported to the hospital, and all on the flight are presumed to be deceased.” The US Federal Aviation Administration said in an earlier statement that the plane was carrying eight people. In a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341314/least-6-dead-after-private-plane-crashes-maine-us-hit-winter-storm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341314/least-6-dead-after-private-plane-crashes-maine-us-hit-winter-storm?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:29:59 +0000 Reuters Reuters Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province on the slope of a fog-covered mountain, and had recovered the body of one of the 10 people on board. The ATR 42-500 turboprop owned by aviation group Indonesia Air Transport lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday at about 1.30pm local time around the Maros ⁠region in South Sulawesi. There were seven crew members and three passengers on... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3340319/indonesia-finds-one-body-wreckage-missing-surveillance-plane?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3340319/indonesia-finds-one-body-wreckage-missing-surveillance-plane?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:24:24 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Two helicopters crashed mid-air in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities said. Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters. The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a mid-air collision between an Enstrom... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337960/1-dead-another-injured-mid-air-helicopter-crash-new-jersey-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337960/1-dead-another-injured-mid-air-helicopter-crash-new-jersey-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:54:28 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press An intermunicipal bus veered off a road in Guatemala and fell into a deep ravine, killing 15 passengers and injuring at least 15 others, authorities said on Saturday, declaring three days of national mourning. The accident happened on Friday night outside the town of Totonicapan along a route known as the Inter-American Highway. Officials said it took rescuers more than two hours to recover the bodies from the crash site and rescue injured passengers. Fifteen people were still being treated for... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3337914/bus-crash-kills-15-guatemala-government-declares-3-days-national-mourning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3337914/bus-crash-kills-15-guatemala-government-declares-3-days-national-mourning?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:58:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed on Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said. Four of the people on board were Navy officers and four were civilians, including a child, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement. Two of the passengers were from a non-profit that provides aid to Mexican children with severe burns, including transports to a Galveston hospital. US... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337494/least-5-killed-us-after-mexican-plane-medical-mission-crashes-texas-fog?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337494/least-5-killed-us-after-mexican-plane-medical-mission-crashes-texas-fog?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:25:29 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A business jet crashed on Thursday while trying to return to a North Carolina airport shortly after take-off, killing all seven people aboard, including retired Nascar driver Greg Biffle and his family, authorities said. The Cessna C550 erupted into a large fire when it hit the ground. It had departed Statesville Regional Airport, about 72km (45 miles) north of Charlotte, but soon crashed while trying to return and land, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. Flight records show the plane... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336969/deaths-reported-after-business-jet-crashes-north-carolina-airport?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336969/deaths-reported-after-business-jet-crashes-north-carolina-airport?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:55:05 +0000 Reuters,Associated Press Reuters,Associated Press The US Justice Department said late on Wednesday the federal government was liable in the fatal January 29 collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was the deadliest plane crash on American soil in more than two decades. The government admitted it “owed a duty of care to plaintiffs, which it breached, thereby proximately causing the tragic accident” and that the pilots of the Army... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336963/us-government-admits-liability-fatal-black-hawk-and-american-airlines-jet-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336963/us-government-admits-liability-fatal-black-hawk-and-american-airlines-jet-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:28:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press UPS and FedEx have said they are grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes “out of an abundance of caution” following a deadly crash at the UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky. The crash on Tuesday at UPS Worldport in Louisville killed 14 people, including the three pilots on the MD-11 that was headed for Honolulu. MD-11 aircraft make up about 9 per cent of the UPS airline fleet and 4 per cent of the FedEx fleet, according to the companies. “We made this decision proactively at... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332039/ups-fedex-proactively-ground-entire-md-11-cargo-fleets-after-deadly-kentucky-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332039/ups-fedex-proactively-ground-entire-md-11-cargo-fleets-after-deadly-kentucky-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:48:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The death toll from a cargo plane crash in the southern US state of Kentucky rose to 12 on Wednesday, with investigators saying the accident was caused by one of the engines catching fire and detaching during take-off. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11, operated by package delivery giant UPS and bound for Hawaii, crashed at 5.15pm Tuesday, shortly after departing from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It exploded into flames as it slammed into businesses adjacent to the airport, killing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331696/engine-fell-us-cargo-plane-crash-killed-11-people?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331696/engine-fell-us-cargo-plane-crash-killed-11-people?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:38:52 +0000 Cannix Yau,Wynna Wong Cannix Yau,Wynna Wong Hong Kong authorities have retrieved two black boxes from a crashed cargo plane that killed two airport security workers in a vehicle earlier this week and ended up in the sea, pledging to release a preliminary report within a month. The Airport Authority also said on Saturday that a retrieval team had lifted wreckage of the patrol vehicle from waters off the north runway in the morning. The vehicle was being kept on a salvage vessel while police were investigating. The Air Accident... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3330300/hong-kong-investigators-recover-black-boxes-crashed-cargo-plane?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3330300/hong-kong-investigators-recover-black-boxes-crashed-cargo-plane?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:58:13 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying,Cannix Yau Lo Hoi-ying,Cannix Yau Hong Kong airport’s north runway has been temporarily closed as two salvage vessels with an 80-member crew have arrived to lift a crashed cargo plane that veered off its path and killed two security workers who were in a vehicle. The Airport Authority said that the north runway had been closed from 8am on Thursday, with the operation to salvage the aircraft, which ended up in the sea and broke into two sections, expected to “last for a few days”. A source said that police questioned the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3329998/hong-kong-airport-closes-runway-clearing-plane-crash-wreckage-set-begin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3329998/hong-kong-airport-closes-runway-clearing-plane-crash-wreckage-set-begin?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:30:53 +0000 Cannix Yau Cannix Yau A US transport safety agency is sending five investigators to Hong Kong to help with a local probe into a cargo plane crash that killed two security workers, while experts from the Turkish civil aviation authority will also provide assistance. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent US government agency responsible for investigating civil transport accidents, said on social media on Wednesday that it would send five people to the city. “The NTSB is sending a team of five... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3329919/us-safety-agency-investigators-assist-hong-kong-fatal-plane-crash-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3329919/us-safety-agency-investigators-assist-hong-kong-fatal-plane-crash-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:57:35 +0000