Stricken US ship pilot 'novice'
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The navigator of a ship that ran aground off Alaska was only 22 and had no knowledge of the area, a report says.
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WASHINGTON, DC - An error by the co-pilot caused the second-worst air disaster in US history, which killed 265 people in November 2001, National Transportation Safety Board staff said Tuesday.
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The Mojave spaceship builder whose workers died during a test last summer didn't offer proper training, California occupational safety inspectors said Friday.
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A helicopter pilot who rescued a family from an overflowing river, then sought donations for them in exchange for a bird's-eye view of flood-devastated areas is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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KOROLYOV, Russia - A rookie crew of two Russians and an American had a few scary moments as their craft approached too quickly to the International Space Station for docking before they put on the brakes in time to avoid a potential crash.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York and killed 265 people lost control of the Airbus plane after mishandling the rudder, investigators concluded.
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A yachtsman who had a bad fall while crossing the Atlantic thanks people in his pub who helped rescue him.
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The Quincy Patriot  A PRAISEWORTHY ACT.  Peter Falcon, of Cohasset, Mass. during the late terrible storms, saved the lives of eleven shipwrecked seamen.
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By Paul OâHare and Victoria Mitchell, Scottish Press Association. The RAF and the Royal Navy were tonight involved in a rescue operation in the Atlantic after a fire broke out on a Canadian submarine.
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"We have an explosion. We are descending immediately. We have fire on board!" the co-pilot of the Cuban airliner radioed the Barbados control tower before his crippled DC-8 plunged into the Caribbean sea on October 6, 1976.
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After sailing around the world solo in 1986, then seeing his beloved sloop American Promise sink in a coal barge accident as she was being cruised by a group of Naval Academy Midshipmen, Maine's Dodge Morgan said, ``Almost all accidents at sea are man-made."
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SLIGO, Ireland - A Canadian sailor was waging a battle last night to overcome severe smoke inhalation injuries after he and a fellow sailor were airlifted from their disabled submarine to hospital in this small Irish north coast town.
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Interim report says crew error could have had 'serious consequences' had there been a fire
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By TARA BRAUTIGAM  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - As Michael Petten stood on the deck of a fishing vessel engulfed in flames, staring at the icy North Atlantic, he faced a simple, awful dilemma: burn or freeze to death.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York killing 265 people made several inappropriate rudder movements that snapped the
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THE co-pilot of a plane which crashed in New York in November 2001 made a fatal error when using the aircraftâs rudder, US investigators have found.
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At 17,000 feet beneath the surface, the temperature of ocean water is just above freezing, oxygen is sparse and currents are relatively calm. In other words, ideal conditions for preserving an airplane that might have crashed into the depths nearly 70 years ago, according to marine explorer David Jourdan, who hopes to answer one of aviation's greatest mysteries &#151; the fate of famed pilot Amelia Earhart.