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Small aircraft flying over the Hudson River near New York City are now following new flight rules.
A South Korean fishing boat flipped over after colliding with a much larger Hong Kong cargo ship, killing four fishermen and leaving three others missing, officials said Sunday.
Thousands of family members, friends and colleagues said farewell Friday to seven Coast Guard members who died when their plane collided with a Marine helicopter off the San Diego coast.
New Hampshire wildlife officials said a boar that ran into the side of a woman's car on Interstate 89 in New London most likely escaped from a private game preserve. Becky Field said she didn't realize her car had been hit by a boar until a state trooper told her after her vehicle was damaged on Sunday night.
A passenger train rammed into a cargo train outside of the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing 10 people including an infant, officials said.
The U.S. Coast Guard has identified nine people feared dead at sea following an air collision between a Coast Guard aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter.
The Coast Guard plans a memorial service for seven members who died in a collision with a Marine helicopter near San Diego last week.
A Japanese navy destroyer and a South Korean container ship collided Tuesday off southern Japan, sparking fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, officials said.
A Belgian cargo vessel leaked oil into waters off northern China after a Chinese ship crashed into it at a refueling dock, a state news agency said Sunday.
Authorities say an Air Force pilot had no opportunity to eject after a collision between two F-16 fighter jets offshore, and Coast Guard searchers say they've shifted efforts to finding his body and recovering the plane's wreckage.
Two small planes at a recreational pilots gathering in central Louisiana collided in the air, killing two and injuring two.
The air traffic controller banters and chuckles, engrossed in a teasing phone call with a giggling friend, unaware that two aircraft are on a collision course over New York's Hudson River.
The pilot of a plane involved in a mid-air collision over the Hudson River read back the wrong radio frequency to an air traffic controller but wasn't corrected by the controller, a federal safety official said Wednesday.
Two small planes collided in midair Wednesday about 40 miles south of Phoenix, sending one crashing to the ground and killing a student pilot from China who was training to fly commercial planes, officials said.
Police say a highway pileup near the Smoky Mountains has critically injured three people and at least 10 others have been taken to the hospital.
Airplane and helicopter pilot groups lauded the proposed changes to the airspace over the Hudson River Thursday, while air traffic controllers braced for the possibility of an increased workload the new regulations could produce.
Sen. Charles Schumer is proposing new measures he says would help prevent another crash over the Hudson River like the one that killed nine people this month.
An air traffic controller should have warned the pilot of a small plane about aircraft in its path before it collided with a sightseeing helicopter over New York's Hudson River in a crash that claimed nine lives, federal officials said Thursday in making safety recommendations.
Nearly two dozen students were injured when a school bus collided with a pickup truck at a rural Nebraska intersection.
Excerpts from draft government transcripts of conversations between the control tower of the Teterboro, N.J., airport and the pilot of a Piper plane that collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River on Aug. 8, killing nine people. The pilot of the helicopter involved in the collision was not involved in the conversations, though other helicopter pilots were:
Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.
In an Aug. 14 story about the actions of air traffic controllers at the time of a midair collision over the Hudson River, The Associated Press erroneously reported a response by the airplane pilot. The pilot acknowledged an instruction to change radio frequency, not an instruction to turn his plane southwest.
A helicopter hit by a small plane over the Hudson River wasn't initially visible to an air traffic controller handling the plane, federal safety officials say in a revised account of the deadly collision.
A video shot by a tourist shows a small plane soaring over the Hudson River before clipping a sightseeing helicopter, sending them both plummeting toward the water, killing nine people.
When a small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River last week, it was only the second time in decades that crowded skies near Manhattan led to a midair crash.
Four killed in car-train crash in S.C.Four people, including a 12-year-old, died when an Amtrak train hit their car in Hardeeville, South Carolina, an official said Tuesday.
NFL VP on officials' safety: 'We're getting too many people hurt'NFL officiating czar Mike Pereira confirmed on Wednesday that the league intends to improve the protection of officials in the offseason after a wave of incidents in which officials have been hurt from collisions with players.
Firefighter Pinned For Hours After Truck CollisionA firefighter was pinned for hours after two fire trucks collided on rain-slicked streets in Brooklyn.
2 Military Planes Collide, Coast Guard Searching for Pilot Off Charleston CoastTwo F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing collided in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday near Myrtle Beach, S.C. The aircraft, from Shaw AFB, were participating in night training maneuvers.
14 Students Injured In School Bus Crash Fourteen students were injured when a school bus crashed in Pendleton County.
One dead in Oklahoma City after car and train collisionA woman died after she drove a car through a dead-end barrier and struck a train in south Oklahoma City.
Tulsa Fire Department vehicle damaged in collisionA Tulsa Fire Department vehicle had minor damage Wednesday morning after being struck from behind by another vehicle, said Tulsa Fire Department spokesman Bill French.
3 teens, adult die in head-on crashFour people, including three teenagers, died Saturday in a head-on traffic collision on U.S. 81 in Grady County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Airplane almost hits ship kiteNow that more and more ships are using skysail kites which sometimes fly as high as 300 meters (~1000 feet) to help tow them along to conserve on fuel, a dangerous situation is posed to airplanes by both the kites and the tether.
No injuries on bus involved in collisionMuskogee Police are investigating a collision involving a Muskogee Public Schools bus that occurred at Gulick and Turner streets Tuesday.
Steam train collision injures 52 More than 50 people were injured, four seriously, when two narrow-gauge steam trains collided in Radebeul, Saxony, on Saturday evening.
Schoolgirl Jessica Watson's Solo Sailing Bid Around World Hampered by Ship Collision During "Test Run"Jessica Watson's yacht crashed into a cargo ship during a sea trial overnight. The accident happened "at around 2am" September 9, 2009 local time, or about 5pm September 8, 2009 BST.
Broken Arrow woman dies in collisionA Broken Arrow woman died at the scene of a collision Monday night in Creek County, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. According to reports, troopers responded at about 7 p.m. on 449th West Avenue, about 0.3 miles south of 261st Street South.
Women Say They Had Little Warning Before Train Hit Car Four people inside a car escaped just seconds before a train slammed into the vehicle in south Charlotte on Tuesday evening.
Police: Teens Got High, Hit Cruiser Two metro Detroit teens are accused of getting high, getting on a riding lawnmower and hitting a police cruiser.
German couple survives collision with train A German couple walked away from their crumpled car unscathed after colliding with a regional train that dragged them 20 metres along train tracks before halting near Linz, an Austrian press agency reported on Sunday.
Traces of planet collision foundA Nasa space telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star. Astronomers say the cosmic smash-up is similar to the one that formed our Moon some four billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth.
Helicopter, Plane Crash Into New York's Hudson River A tourist helicopter and a small plane collided and crashed into the Hudson River between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Helicopter and Plane Collide Over Hudson RiverA helicopter and small plane have collided over the East River, police said. Multiple casualties are being reported. The two aircraft crashed Hoboken, N.J., just before noon, with wreckage falling into the water and on land on the New Jersey side, witnesses said.
Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds The new study, which entailed outfitting the cabs of long-haul trucks with video cameras over 18 months, found that when the drivers texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.
Feds: Trolley Driver May Have Ignored Faulty Signal -- NTSB Report Complete on 2008 Fatal Boston Trolley CrashFederal investigators say a trolley operator killed when her train rammed another apparently ignored a faulty red stop signal. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said they are not sure how long the signal in suburban Newton was stuck in the stop position.
Looping plane collides with family in carA spectacular collision between a low-flying sport airplane and a car left five people injured in Bavaria on Sunday, saved from death by what police called "a few guardian angels."
Monorail trains collide at Walt Disney World; 1 dead "Two Walt Disney World monorail trains collided early Sunday morning, killing the operator of one of the trains. The wreck is the first fatal accident in the Walt Disney World monorail system's almost 38-year history, according to CFNews13.com.
Logan Runway Procedures Changed After Near CollisionBOSTON -- Massport instituted several changes at Logan International Airport to increase airfield safety after a construction vehicle narrowly missed colliding with a plane on a runway last week.
BREAKING NEWS: Two DC Subway Trains Collide"Two Metro subway trains collided between stations north of downtown Washington, D.C., during afternoon rush hour Monday, killing at least one person, CNN has confirmed.
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