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• Preliminary Report Issued for Investigation of Fatal, Mountain View, California, Tesla Crash

  The NTSB released its preliminary report about the Tesla crash in Mountain View, California involving a 2017 Telsa Model X P100D.

• NTSB Released 2000-page Document of Amtrak Crash Findings

  The NTSB has released a 2000-page document detailing their findings on the Amtrak 188 crash Earlier today, federal investigators released their findings on what could have caused the fatal derailment from last year's Amtrak passenger train.

• Collision course with a hurricane: How doomed U.S. ship met its end

  The ill-fated U.S.-flagged El Faro cargo ship sunk by Hurricane Joaquin was sailing at near full speed into the center of the storm before it lost propulsion amid mountainous waves and brutal winds, according to ship tracking data.

• Malaysia says almost certain debris found off Madagascar is from a Boeing 777

  Malaysia is "almost certain" that plane debris found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is from a Boeing 777, the deputy transport minister said on Thursday, heightening the possibility it could be wreckage from missing Flight MH370.

• Four passengers sue Amtrak over deadly Philadelphia derailment

  Four passengers on the Amtrak commuter train that derailed in Philadelphia last week filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. rail service, as operations resumed on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor.

• Amtrak engineer made no report of object hitting windshield before crash: NTSB

  U.S. federal investigators have found no record that the engineer of the Amtrak commuter train that crashed in Philadelphia last week reported an object hit his locomotive in the minutes before it derailed, a U.S. official said on Sunday.

• Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck

  The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation safety official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew.

• New York train was not speeding before crash with car

  The New York commuter train that plowed into a car stopped on a crossing this week was traveling just below the speed limit and no problem was found with the signals or traffic barriers at the site of the deadly crash, a federal investigator said on Thursday.

• Electrified rail pierced New York train in crash, official says

  Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said on Wednesday, describing the area's worst rail crash in decades.

• TWA 800 Crash: Downed Aircraft Not Due to Gas Tank Explosion, Former Investigators Say in New Documentary (Video)

  On July 17, 1996, a Paris bound TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people on board. After a four-year investigation, the National Transportation Security Board concluded the plane was destroyed by a center fuel tank explosion likely caused by a spark from faulty wiring.