Posts tagged train

• NTSB Recommends Child Restraint Seats for Children Flying This Summer

  Sandy Grinnell | May 28, 2010 12:15 PM | 3 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As summer vacations approach, the National Safety Transportation Board (NTSB) is stressing the importance of child restraint seats on all airline flights. For most parents, strapping the kids into...

• Pilot Fatigue- FAA is taking notice but are they telling passengers the truth

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | September 17, 2009 9:38 AM | 1 CommentMiami, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Federal Aviation Administration head Randy Babbitt says It's absolutely unsafe to think that commuter cockpit crews can fly as many hours or stay on duty for as long as pilots who may fly one...

• Is Your Child's Safety Seat Truly Safe?

  Sandy Grinnell | September 03, 2009 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  National Child Passenger Safety Seat Week is September 12 - 19, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Auto accidents are the number one cause of death in children...

• Are computers to blame in another deadly crash? Or was the train involved in the D.C. transit collision too old to be used?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | June 24, 2009 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The deadly train collision earlier this week, just outside of Washington DC, killed nine people and injured more than 70. Experts immediately began to search through the wreckage trying to find out...

• FAA Must Pay $3.75 Million For Doomed Flight Instructions

  Eddie Farah | June 04, 2009 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to pay $3.75 million after it gave faulty landing instructions during an emergency in December 2005. Pilot Gary Tillman of Rome, Georgia, his...

• New Program Will Match Children's Car Seats with Appropriate Vehicles

  Sandy Grinnell | April 27, 2009 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After the Chicago Tribune found that not all child restraint seats perform the same way in different vehicles, on Friday the U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a new system whereby...

• Child Booster Seats Must Comply With Safety Laws (no brainer, so you would think)

  Ed Normand | August 19, 2008 5:25 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Of all the products in the world child safety seats should be governed by the same safety regulations (or more, not less) than the average product sold. Incredibly, however, our own National Highway...