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Amazon Cargo Jet Pilots Appeared to Try to Abort Landing, N.T.S.B. Data Indicates

9 septembre 2026 à 12:48
The sequence of events detailed by National Transportation Safety Board investigators showed that the pilots lost crucial seconds before the plane ran off the runway in Miami.

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Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, right, and Chihoon Shin, an N.T.S.B. investigator, at Miami International Airport on Monday.

Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the ‘Man in the Red Bandanna’

8 septembre 2026 à 13:54
Welles Remy Crowther, an equity trader and volunteer firefighter, is credited with saving 18 people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 before being killed.

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Paige Crowther Charbonneau, left, and Alison Crowther accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump on behalf of their brother and son, Welles Remy Crowther.

Miami Plane Crash Starts Debate About Requiring a Buffer for Runways

8 septembre 2026 à 02:53
A technology involving crushable concrete has been credited with saving nearly 500 passenger lives by helping halt planes that overshot their landings.

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An image provided by Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport showing a commuter flight stopped by an engineered materials arresting system, or EMAS, last year.

Officials Search for Answers After Fatal Miami Airport Cargo Plane Crash

7 septembre 2026 à 21:06
A cargo plane, operated for Amazon, plowed into two vehicles on Sunday, leaving five more injured and disrupting Labor Day weekend travel for thousands.

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Investigators are continuing to try to determine what caused the crash of an Amazon cargo plane at Miami International Airport.

Homeland Security Secretary’s Plane Makes Emergency Landing

2 septembre 2026 à 23:53
The landing was the latest close call over Washington’s congested airspace to involve a senior government official.

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Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, was on a plane that made an emergency landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.

110 Trucking Schools Closed for English-Language Lapses

31 août 2026 à 17:08
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has targeted truckers in the country illegally, said the schools certified drivers later found to lack proficiency.

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Trucking students practicing reverse parking at a driving school in New Jersey.

White House Construction May Have Contributed to Close Call With Trump’s Helicopter

27 août 2026 à 19:30
A controller let a jet take off after missing warnings that Marine One was about to fly through the area, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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A passenger jet came within a mile of Marine One in early August, after an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport appeared to have missed multiple warnings.

Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario to Lake America as U.S.-Canada Trade War Heats Up

25 août 2026 à 11:45
The president’s threat is his latest jab at Canada since trade talks between the two countries broke down.

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The name of Lake Ontario has become a recent target of President Trump.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s ‘Road Trip’ Highlights America, and Some of Its Sponsors

20 août 2026 à 20:53
The transportation secretary’s six-part YouTube series is fueling ethical concerns over family adventures funded in large part by corporate sponsors regulated by his department.

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The reality road trip series tracks Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, his wife, their nine children and his son-in-law.

State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained

20 août 2026 à 10:59
U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.

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The detained U.S. citizen U Min Zin disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.
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