Boeing 737 aircraft used by many airlines around the world may not be as sturdy as originally designed. Manufacturer Boeing Inc. admitted that metal fatigue could be affecting the planes much sooner than they projected. Older models of Boeing 737 planes are currently being inspected for cracks in the fuselage after a five-foot hole opened […]
Boeing 737 aircraft will be undergoing rigorous safety inspections to find cracks and other signs of wear and tear in the planes’ fuselage, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday. The order comes three days after a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 plane had to make an emergency landing after part of its cabin blew open in […]
The tour bus industry is facing a tough review of its safety record and practices following a series of deadly bus crashes including that of a New York bus that killed 15 people recently. After the Bronx bus incident, another mishap occurred in the New Jersey Turnpike when a Chinatown bus crashed and killed the […]
Cabin pressure dropped due to an “in-flight fuselage rupture” that hit a Southwest Airlines plane in mid-flight on Friday. Flight 812 was cruising at an altitude of 36,000 feet when a part of the fuselage ripped open. Oxygen masks fell as the airline plummeted because of the loss of cabin pressure. The airline pilot was […]
Seat belts, safety features in newer vehicles, and measures against drunken driving are some of the factors being attributed for the drop in road fatalities in the United States. A report from the Department of Transportation showed Friday that 32,788 people died in road mishaps in 2010, dropping 3 percent from a year earlier, and […]
Qantas Airlines are following other carriers in scaling back services largely due to rising fuel prices and also because of natural disasters hitting some of its key destinations. The carrier said it plans to cut costs by scaling back flights and letting go of some personnel. Domestic seats will go down from 14 percent to […]
The bus crash in New York earlier this month which claimed the lives of 15 people is the latest in a long list of fatal accidents involving buses in multiple U.S. states. Similar incidents in New Jersey and New Hampshire have also happened in recent weeks. Travel safety governing buses and other public transportation have […]
Speeding cars have been caught by a network of cameras that span the long stretch of I-95 from Miami to Canada since their installation, and local officials and road safety groups have hailed the cameras for the decline in deaths due to vehicular accidents. But there are some legislators who argue that the system of […]
The bus driver of a passenger bus which crashed March 12 in the Bronx had his license suspended by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Ophadel Williams, 40, was behind the wheel of the bus which swerved, flipped over, and smashed into street poles, killing 15 passengers. Williams said he avoided a tractor-trailer and lost control of […]
Japan flights are being re-routed and re-scheduled by foreign carriers away from Tokyo because of the radiation scare from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors. Alitalia and Lufthansa Airlines have shifted flights from Tokyo’s Narita airport to Nagoya and Osaka. The German carrier said in a news release that it implemented the change “in an effort […]
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