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.

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 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 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.

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.

Video from a firefighter’s helmet camera following the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows rescuers were aware there was someone on the ground outside the plane before she was fatally run over by a fire engine.

A commuter train that derailed in New York, killing four passengers, was travelling at 82mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a US government investigator has said.

A train that derailed in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens more, was travelling at 82mph as it approached a 30mph zone, officials have disclosed.

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Former investigators into an air crash off the coast of New York in 1996, which killed 230 people, want the case reopened over claims there was an FBI cover-up.

The battery that caught fire in a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner was not overcharged, but US government investigators warned there could still be problems with wiring or other components.

More than half the Boeing 787s in use around the world have been grounded after an emergency landing by one of the jets revealed a battery fire risk in the aircraft.

The death toll from an air race crash in Reno, Nevada, rose to nine as investigators said the 1940s plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming into a crowded tarmac.

A vintage Second World War-era fighter plane has plunged into the grandstands during a popular annual US air show, killing at least three people and injuring more than 50 spectators.

Inspectors have found small, sub-surface cracks in two more Southwest Airlines planes which are similar to those that caused a jet to lose pressure and make a terrifying emergency landing in Arizona, the airline said today.

A large cargo-type plane crashed in the US state of Alaska and burst into a deadly fireball that sparked a forest fire at Denali National Park, officials said.

A software engineer , furious with the US Internal Revenue Service, crashed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees today, officials said.

Two pilots told investigators they were going over schedules using their laptop computers against company policy while their passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

TWO minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.

An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat moments before a light aircraft collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River, it has been revealed.

Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of New York’s murky Hudson River in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from the mid-air collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a light aircraft that killed nine people.

Divers were today searching for clues to a mid-air crash between a light aircraft and a sightseeing helicopter carrying tourists over New York’s Hudson River in which nine people died.

Malfunctioning equipment on at least a dozen recent flights by US passenger jets made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, investigators have discovered.

Investigators probing a deadly train crash near the Washington-Maryland border are looking more closely at a stretch of track near the wreck site after finding abnormalities yesterday in equipment that senses trains and transmits speed commands.

The Buffalo airliner crash that killed 50 people may have been the pilot’s fault, investigators said today.

US investigators have located key parts that might help reveal the pilot’s efforts to save a plane that crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.

A newly-released security camera tape shows the emergency ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River.

Safety investigators said today the US Airways jet that crashed into New York’s Hudson River had a compressor failure two days earlier.

Details of the calm manner in which the Hudson River jet crash captain handled the emergency were revealed today.

Salvage crews have hoisted a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River and onto a barge days after its pilot made a split-second decision to attempt a water landing to avoid a “catastrophic” crash over populated areas.

A newly-released recording reveals the drama of Flight 1549 from almost the minute it left the ground.

Thirteen months after millionaire thrill-seeker Steve Fossett mysteriously disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine plane: It slammed straight into a mountain on a cloudy day.

SPECULATION on what caused the plane disaster centred yesterday on a plane part that had to be fixed after the flight first tried to take off.

As many as eight firefighters and a pilot are presumed dead after a helicopter crashed just after picking up workers battling a blaze in a Northern California forest.

Authorities were today trying to identify the most recently discovered human remains from last week’s interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota as recovery teams worked to find more bodies of the handful of people still missing.