The Latest Breaking News from NTSB

An investigation continues for an Alaska pilot who waited for hours in an icy lake for rescue on the wing with two young family members for possible misuse of his student license

FAA acting head Chris Rocheleau said that "clearly something was missed" by the agency before the fatal Potomac River midair collision.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says if investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the fatal midair collision over the nation’s capital in January, then aviation safety regulators should have recognized the problem

Congress is holding a hearing Thursday about the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft

The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes

NTSB says there was ‘no excuse’ for missed safety check and calls for urgent assessment of 68 bridges across US

The NTSB identified bridges with ‘unknown levels’ of collapse risk including famous landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in California, and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York

The NTSB recommendation comes as officials shared new details about the Key Bridge collapse investigation on Thursday, stating that the bridge was nearly 30 times above the acceptable risk threshold for critical or essential bridges.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report

Federal investigators say a series of chain-reaction crashes and a fire in a Wyoming highway tunnel that killed three people started when a pickup truck lost control after leaving the tunnel and partially blocked both lanes of the slick highway

The National Transportation Safety Board says a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska and killed all 10 people on board was half a ton overweight for the known or possible weather conditions in the area