Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• TSA Will Start Monitoring Railroad Freight Cars

  IB Contributor | January 25, 2007 1:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The Transportation Security Administration for the first time, will start a nationwide tracking system to determine how long rail cars filled with toxic chemicals are stopped on tracks or sit in unsecured storage yards in urban areas, according to an article in USA Today by Thomas Frank. TSA officials say unguarded rail cars filled with toxic chemicals such as chlorine in cities are the single...

• Bulgaria's Aviation Sector Is to Be Put into Quarantine

  Rick Patterson | January 24, 2007 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  With Bulgaria's admission into the EU on January 1, 2007, there is cause to apply rigorous safety measures against the new member state. These safety measures will leave Bulgaria outside the single European aviation market, which means that Bulgaria will be treated as any other third country. The EU transport commissioner, Jacques Barrot, was said to be disturbed that there had been little done...

• Toxic Train Wreck Endangers Community

  IB Contributor | January 17, 2007 12:05 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  An 80-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in Kentucky Tuesday and caught on fire. The incident sickened 11 people, who inhaled the toxic fumes, according to several news reports. Among the chemicals carried by the derailed cars was butadiene, a potential carcinogen used to produce synthetic rubber, chlorine residue and methyl ethyl ketone, an industrial solvent that can...

• Runway Safety Is More than an Airport-only Challenge

  Rick Patterson | January 10, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Most aviation accidents occur in close proximity to an airport. Runway safety is one of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) top safety priorities. In the late 1990's, the FAA decided to address non-compliant safety areas on a national level. Dane County Regional Airport was a high priority safety improvement project. The project was very involved, and the solution required moving...

• Pilot Escapes Plane Crash Uninjured

  Staff Writer | June 06, 2006 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA

  A pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings at Salt Lake City Airport II today when the single-engine aircraft he was piloting flipped and came to rest upside-down in a field adjacent to the runway. The pilot escaped unharmed, and the FAA was called in to investigate the cause of the crash.