Footballer Emiliano Sala was exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide before he was killed in a plane crash and it is likely his pilot was also affected, accident investigators said.

A British tourist who was pulled from the wreckage of a fiery helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon is now in a "fair" condition at a Nevada hospital, authorities have said.

Three people were killed and two others injured when a helicopter crashed into a house in southern California just a few minutes after taking off, US officials said.

A shift to self-driving cars will mean rather than depending on other drivers to compensate for our mistakes, we'll depend on engineers to make fewer of them, writes Stephen M Zoepf

Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official says.

The drivers of two commuter trains that slammed into New York City-area stations in separate incidents were both suffering from severe sleep apnoea, US investigators have found.

A train was going "super-fast" just before it crashed into another service parked at a suburban Philadelphia station, injuring dozens of people, a passenger has said.

The pilot of an Air Canada plane carrying 140 passengers made a last-minute manoeuvre to avoid landing on a taxiway at San Francisco International Airport where four passenger jets were lined up to take off.

Crews have removed an American Airlines plane from the mud after it veered off a runway at San Antonio International Airport.

After crashing, the plane went down a steep, wooded hill.

A freight train has crashed into a coach in Biloxi, Mississippi, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks and leaving at least four people dead, authorities said.

The driver of a school bus in the US that was filled with elementary students when it crashed in Chattanooga, killing at least five children, has been arrested and faces charges including vehicular homicide.

An air ambulance plane taking a heart disease patient to a Utah hospital has crashed and exploded in a car park in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard.

Seven passengers and a flight attendant reported minor injuries after an American Airlines aircraft caught fire and passengers were evacuated onto the runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

A work train and a commuter train "side-swiped" one another, causing a derailment that injured 33 people, New York's governor has said.

A transatlantic flight diverted to Shannon Airport this afternoon after a passenger on board was reported to have fallen ill.

A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas on Saturday, killing all 16 people aboard, in one of the deadliest such accidents on record. It apparently struck power lines.

A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon basket in New York state.

Eight people have been killed and over 40 injured in a bus crash in south Texas.

The engineer of an Amtrak passenger train applied the emergency brakes five seconds before it struck a digger sitting on the same track, killing the operator and a track supervisor, US officials said.

A US navy salvage team was preparing yesterday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members.

Five people have died in a mid-air collision between two planes in Southern California.

Four people were killed when a small plane crashed in the Adirondack Mountains, New York state police said.

Fourteen bodies have been discovered on an overcrowded barge in the Mediterranean Sea; A man charged with murdering another man in a "frenzied" knife attempted to flee Limerick District court this morning; A former detective with Scotland Yard has claimed police covered up an Irish serial killer who stalked and murdered 18 people on the London Underground Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington’s Cascade Mountains says she burned herself trying to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.

An F-16 fighter jet has smashed into a small plane over the US state of South Carolina, killing two and scattering plane parts and debris over a wide area.

Experts say they are unsure anything struck the windscreen of an Amtrak train minutes before a deadly derailment in Philadelphia, in another twist to the investigation as the national network restarted its service to New York.

The first of the victims of the Philadelphia railway crash has been laid to rest as investigators continue to probe why the train was travelling faster than 100mph.

Federal investigators have determined that an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least eight people, was careening through the city at 170km/h before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 80km/h, yet they still don’t know why it was going so fast.

The engineer in a deadly train derailment in Philadelphia does not remember the crash, his lawyer said, complicating the investigation into why the Amtrak passenger train was going more than twice the allowed speed when it shot off a sharp curve.

Federal investigators have said that preliminary data showed an Amtrak train in Philadelphia was travelling at more than 100 miles (160km) per hour, or roughly twice the speed limit, when it derailed, killing seven people and injuring more than 200.

The doctor who came to Harrison Ford's aid immediately after seeing his plane crash-land on a Los Angeles golf course says he was stunned to discover the actor at the controls.

US transportation safety investigators have said they are reviewing a request to re-open a probe into the 1959 airplane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, JP Richardson, better known as ’The Big Bopper,’ Ritchie Valens, and their pilot.

US transportation safety investigators have said they are reviewing a request to re-open a probe into the 1959 airplane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, JP Richardson, better known as ’The Big Bopper,’ Ritchie Valens, and their pilot.

US investigators say selfies were likely to be a factor in a small plane crash near Denver last year that killed two.

The transit network in the US capital has been crippled by an electrical malfunction that filled a busy subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospital.

A seven-year-old girl who survived a plane crash that killed her parents and two other family members has been released from the hospital, an official has said.

A small, private jet has slammed into a house in the US state of Maryland, killing a woman and her two young sons inside the home and three people on the aircraft, authorities said.

A small plane has crashed into a house in Maryland.

A pilot has died after his small twin-engine cargo plane crashed into a bungalow in Chicago.

The space tourism company that suffered a tragic setback when its experimental rocket-powered spaceship broke apart over the California desert could resume test flights as early as next summer if it can finish building a replacement craft.

Tiny pieces of the Virgin Galactic experimental spaceship that broke up in flight have been found 35 miles from the main wreckage area, it emerged.

An investigation into the fatal Virgin Galactic spaceship crash has found the function to help it descend was deployed early.

Investigators looking into what caused the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said a five-mile path of debris across the California desert indicates the aircraft broke up in flight.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said he is determined to find out what went wrong during a test flight of his prototype space tourism rocket after one pilot died and another was injured in an accident.

A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth’s atmosphere exploded during a test flight over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot.

Voice-activated smartphones and dashboard infotainment systems may be making drivers even more distracted, new studies have found.

Two Irishmen are in a critical but stable condition in hospital after the single engine plane they were flying in narrowly missed an apartment building and crashed into a public park in Florida.