Business

Mississippi River traffic resumes under damaged bridge

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — River traffic has reopened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, three days after it was closed when a crack was discovered in the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Tennessee and Arkansas, the U.S.

Business

‘Amazing’: Pilots, passenger uninjured after midair crash

DENVER — The pilot of an airplane that collided with another midair near Denver requested emergency landing for engine failure, not knowing that his plane was nearly ripped in half, according to air traffic control audio.

Oddities

Two planes collide midair above Denver, no one injured

DENVER — Two small airplanes collided in midair Wednesday near Denver, leaving one aircraft nearly ripped in half and forcing the pilot of the other to deploy a parachute attached to the plane to land safely...

Business

Official: Repairs to interstate bridge could take months

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span, forcing thousands of trucks and cars to detour and shutting down shipping on a section of the Mississippi River, a transportation official said Wednesday...

Business

NTSB: Tesla owner got into driver’s seat before deadly crash

DETROIT — Home security camera footage shows that the owner of a Tesla got into the driver's seat of the car shortly before a deadly crash in suburban Houston, according to a government report Monday...

Los Angeles

Probe: Kobe Bryant pilot may have become disoriented in fog

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed in thick fog, killing Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers, reported the aircraft was ascending when it actually was heading for the...

Virus Outbreak

Restaurants in much of NY get green light for outdoor dining

NEW YORK — New York will start to allow outdoor dining at restaurants as soon as Thursday in much of the state outside of New York City and its suburbs as coronavirus restrictions ease, Gov....

U.S. News

Safety board asks helicopter makers to install ‘black boxes’

Federal safety investigators bypassed aviation regulators on Tuesday and urged leading helicopter manufacturers to install so-called black boxes that would help determine the cause of crashes such...

Virus Outbreak

Pandemic a boon for the bicycle as thousands snap them up

SAN FRANCISCO — Joel Johnson hadn’t owned a bicycle since he was 15, but the pandemic changed all that.

Transportation

Virus threatens future of already-struggling transit systems

BOSTON — Before the pandemic, public transit users in cities around the country bonded over a slew of ills that plagued aging subway systems, from delays and breakdowns to the occasional...

Israel

Intel buys Moovit app for $900M to boost bet on robotic cars

BERKELEY, Calif. — Intel is buying transportation-planning service Moovit for $900 million as the world's largest computer chip maker moves further down the road in its effort to build...

General News

NYC subway halting overnight service for virus cleaning

NEW YORK — New York City's subway system will shut down each day from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to increase cleaning of trains and stations during the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced...

General News

Drug proves effective against virus as economic damage rises

Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that...

Netherlands

Making public transit safe a next hurdle in easing lockdowns

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies. Yet methods of getting...

General News

Coast Guard, Ripley Entertainment criticized in boat crash

LIBERTY, Mo. — A duck boat sinking on a Missouri Lake that killed 17 people two summers ago likely would not have happened if the U.S. Coast Guard had followed recommendations to improve the...

Virus Outbreak

As fewer people fly, rate of guns found in bags by TSA jumps

With far fewer people flying because of travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, airport security screeners are naturally finding fewer guns in carry-on baggage.

Transportation

Tesla says cars can automatically stop for traffic lights

DETROIT — After testing on public roads, Tesla is rolling out a new feature of its partially automated driving system designed to spot stop signs and traffic signals.

Transportation

Asia Today: Jakarta suspends passenger flights, rail service

BANGKOK — Indonesia is suspending passenger flights and rail service as it restricts people in the world’s most populous Muslim nation from traveling to their hometowns during the Islamic...

MLB

NTSB: Halladay on drugs, doing stunts when plane crashed

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay had high levels of amphetamines in his system and was doing extreme acrobatics when he lost control of his small plane and...

General News

Traffic drop from stay-at-home orders imperils road funding

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — America’s roads are a lot less congested, due to coronavirus shutdowns that have kept millions of commuters, shoppers and vacationers parked at their homes.

Transportation

Many airline flights nearly empty as virus undercuts travel

Airline service in the United States is teetering on the brink of collapse, with near-empty planes and coronavirus outbreaks that have left some air traffic control towers empty.

Michael Pence

The Latest: Japan urges against nonessential travel to US

TOKYO — The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 307,200 people and killed more than 13,000. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people,...

U.S. News

2 cruise ships not allowed to disembark in Honolulu

HONOLULU — Two cruise ships won't be allowed to disembark in Honolulu after being turned away by other ports, even with no positive cases of coronavirus on either vessel, officials said...

Wuhan

Trump invokes emergency authority, no new cases in Wuhan

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump invoked emergency authority to marshal industry to fight the coronavirus, as the economic fallout from the pandemic mounted Wednesday with major U.S. auto...

Airport security

US airport security officers fear exposure as cases rise

WASHINGTON — At least six Transportation Security Administration officers have tested positive for the new coronavirus and dozens were in self-quarantine Monday as the disease takes an...

Dominican Republic

The Latest: Puerto Rico sees its first cases of coronavirus

The Latest on the world's coronavirus pandemic:

General News

NTSB: Tesla Autopilot, distracted driver caused fatal crash

WASHINGTON — Tesla’s partially automated driving system steered an electric SUV into a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway because it was operating under conditions it couldn't...

Transportation

Feds to investigate California bus rollover that killed 3

PALA MESA, Calif. — Federal investigators are sending a team to the scene of a charter bus crash crash that killed three people and injured 18 others on a rain-slicked highway near San Diego,...

Transportation

Moscow targets Chinese with raids amid virus fears

MOSCOW — Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the...

Transportation

French TGV maker Alstom in talks to buy Bombardier rail unit

PARIS — French train maker Alstom said Monday it is in talks to buy the rail business of Canadian engineering firm Bombardier, as it tries to bulk up to compete with big rivals, particularly...

General News

Federal report faults Southwest Airlines and FAA on safety

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines continues to fly airplanes with safety concerns, putting 17.2 million passengers at risk, while federal officials do a poor job overseeing the airline, a...

Transportation

NTSB releases details in 2 crashes involving Tesla Autopilot

DETROIT — An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on that same stretch of Silicon Valley...

Los Angeles

Kobe Bryant helicopter had nearly cleared blinding clouds

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed and killed Kobe Bryant and eight others was almost out of blinding clouds when he suddenly plunged and crashed into a Southern...

General News

Probe: Bryant helicopter was 100 feet from clear skies

LOS ANGELES — A witness to the deadly crash of a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others said it sounded normal just before slamming into a hillside and wreckage examined by experts ...

General News

Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured

ISTANBUL — A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more....

Los Angeles

California shooting shows security vulnerabilities on buses

LOS ANGELES — Would-be plotters bent on staging an attack aboard a passenger plane know they've first got to pass through a gauntlet of security measures at an airport, from body scans and...