World & Nation
Asia: Jet crash that killed all 131 aboard is nation’s worst aviation accident. Transportation minister pledges to work on boosting travel safety.
April 20, 2000
California
County officials complained Friday that the three planned tollways, the Santa Ana Freeway widening project and other local transportation improvements could face lengthy delays due to “red tape” generated by proposed clean-air regulations.
Feb. 24, 1990
The Biden administration is defending its response to a freight train derailment in Ohio that left toxic chemicals spilled or burned off.
Feb. 17, 2023
Philippine troops found the last five dead from the crash of a transport aircraft, raising the death toll to 50 in the military’s worst air disaster.
July 5, 2021
Local disaster response workers in eastern Ukraine began loading the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 onto trucks Monday for transport to the Netherlands and further examination in hopes of identifying the cause of the disaster, the Dutch Safety Board announced in a statement.
Dec. 1, 2014
Canada’s transport minister, saying the country’s confidence in air safety has been shaken, said the government will create a new safety investigative board and will order a review of a 1985 plane crash that killed 248 U.S. service personnel and crew members.
March 30, 1989
Business
Few subjects have generated more emotion, wishful thinking and selective use of the facts than the John Wayne Airport controversy.
Sept. 1, 1985
Long before one of its DC-8s slammed into a Newfoundland hillside this month, killing 256 people, Miami-based Arrow Air Inc. had kept its planes aloft with some seat-of-the-pants financing.
Dec. 23, 1985
Air crash experts gathered in Ethiopia to analyze voice and data recorders from a Boeing 737 Max jetliner as controversy over the model’s safety intensified following two fatal disasters in less than five months.
March 21, 2019
Federal and state officials moved quickly Wednesday to help earthquake-stricken Northern California dig itself out and begin to rebuild freeways, bridges, businesses and homes damaged or destroyed by what was probably the nation’s deadliest quake since 1906.
Oct. 19, 1989