The National Transportation Safety Board held a board meeting on June 18, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. (EDT), to determine the probable cause of the fatal, Dec. 12, 2017, Oakland, Iowa, school bus fire.
The National Transportation Safety Board published its preliminary report on June 16, 2019 for the agency’s investigation of the April 24, 2019, derailment of a Union Pacific Railroad train near Fort Worth, Texas.
Failure to provide an effective mitigation for a hazardous curve and inadequate training of a locomotive engineer led to the overspeed derailment of an Amtrak passenger train that hurtled off a railroad bridge and onto a busy highway in DuPont, Washington, the NTSB announced at the May 21, 2019 Board Meeting.
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Photo of the Week Member Homendy and Clint Johnson met with members of Coast Guard Station Ketchikan to thank them for their assistance with the May 13, 2019 accident in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Board member and staff remarks concerning transportation safety:
Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg Member Earl F. Weener Member Jennifer Homendy