Gov't: Budget cuts already causing airport delays
U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as ...
Deaths of teen drivers jumped in early 2012
Deaths of younger teen drivers increased sharply in the first six months of last year, reversing a decade-long trend, according to a report released ...
Safety Council: Traffic deaths surged in 2012
Traffic fatalities rose 5 percent last year, according to an analysis of preliminary state data, reversing a seven-year decline in which the number ...

Hamburg airport security staff to strike
A German union has called on security workers at Hamburg airport to walk off the job on Wednesday, the latest in a series of strikes staged to ramp ...

New report questions FAA's airline safety promise
Since a deadly airline crash in 2009, the government hasn't kept its promise to ensure that major airlines are holding their smaller partners to the ...
Budget cut impact: Smaller Navy, fired teachers
What does smaller government look like? The budget standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans means Americans may soon find ...

Gov't to crack down on unsafe tour bus operators
Responding to recent deadly tour bus accidents, teams of federal inspectors will target bus companies with a history of problems as part of a national ...
FAA mandates safety checks for older Piper planes
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring inspections on tens of thousands of older model Piper airplanes to check cables that control tail ...

AP Exclusive: 787 grounded, but batteries can fly
At the same time the government certified Boeing's 787 Dreamliners as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's ...

Report: FAA lags on fulfilling airline safety law
Faced with substantial industry opposition, federal regulators are struggling to implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted after the last fatal ...

US officials defend handling of Boeing 787 mishaps
Obama administration officials struggled Wednesday to defend their initial statements that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is safe while promising a ...
Aviation technology advances, FAA tries to keep up
After two separate and serious battery problems aboard Boeing 787s, it wasn't U.S. authorities who acted first to ground the plane. It was Japanese ...

Overcharging batteries eyed in Boeing 787 mishaps
It's likely that burning lithium ion batteries on two Boeing 787 Dreamliners were caused by overcharging, aviation safety and battery experts said ...

Lithium batteries central to Boeing's 787 woes
Lithium batteries that can leak corrosive fluid and start fires have emerged as the chief safety concern involving Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a problem ...
Israeli company: Anti-missile system passes tests
An Israeli defense technology company says it has successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect commercial passenger jets.
Expired license for missing Missoni CEO's pilot
The pilot of the plane that disappeared Jan. 4 over Venezuela with the CEO of Italian fashion house Missoni and five others on board had an expired ...

FAA to review of Boeing 787, but calls plane safe
The government stepped in Friday to assure the public that Boeing's new 787 "Dreamliner" is safe to fly, even as it launched a comprehensive review ...

Victims' relatives sue Rivera's company over crash
Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera's company Thursday alleging ...

Poland launches program to reduce traffic deaths
Poland will upgrade its roads, improve law enforcement and take other steps as part of a new government program designed to improve the country's ...

After NYC subway deaths, barriers get new eye
Every day, throngs of riders stand on the edge of danger in the nation's busiest subway system, waiting on platforms with nothing between them and the ...
Vega recalls 30,000-plus motorcycle helmets
Vega Helmet Corp. is recalling more than 30,000 XTS motorcycle helmets after testing found that a few did not meet crash protection safety standards.
Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom
Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their ...

Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules
In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank ...

Drivers: Kenyan traffic laws increase bribe size
Traffic bribes are a way of life for many Kenyan drivers. One dollar here, $5 there. But the drivers of the rowdy minibuses known as matatus say that ...

Mexico: Rivera's plane hit with 'terrible' impact
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a ...