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Transportation safety in the United States encompasses safety of transportation in the United States, including automobile crashes, airplane crashes, rail crashes, and other mass transit incidents, although the most fatalities are generated by road incidents annually killing 32,479 people in 2011 to over 42,000 people in 2022. The number of ...
It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year ...
The crew failed to maintain sufficient altitude awareness during approach in poor visibility, largely due to distracting themselves with impertinent conversation. The accident was the first to eventually precipitate the sterile cockpit rule. January 30, 1974 96 5 5 Pan Am Flight 806: Pago Pago: American Samoa: Boeing 707-321B
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
May 5 – A leak occurred in a relief line, at a Keystone Pipeline Terminal in Beaumont, Texas. About 18,500 gallons of crude oil were spilled. The cause seemed to be internal corrosion. [5] July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas ...
A study shows Galveston had the worst drivers in Texas in 2022. But the safest city to drive in may surprise you. See list of the top 10 worst.
After the crash, the NTSB issued two recommendations to make ballooning safer: to remove medical exemptions for pilots, [21] and to encourage the FAA to revisit their procedures for commercial balloon operators. [22] [23] Texas lawmakers sought to bring stronger regulation for balloon flights, proposing new legislation in late 2017. [24]
Five people, including two children, were injured when a vehicle crashed into St. David's North Austin Medical Center ER in Austin, Texas on Tuesday. Car crashes into Texas emergency room leaving ...