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A railroad that includes a segment in Canada where a fiery oil train derailment claimed 47 lives will soon have a new owner

British Airways says flights are being disrupted by a “technical issue.”

A whistleblower says managers at an air traffic control center in Florida increased risk of a mid-air collision by changing procedures for handing off planes

A safety board and senators are criticizing the federal highway regulator for its oversight of tests involving autonomous vehicles

The National Transportation Safety Board condemned a lack of state and federal regulation of autonomous vehicle testing before finding that a distracted human safety driver was the main cause of a 2018 crash in Arizona involving an Uber test vehicle

Federal safety board says Boeing should redesign part of the casing on some jet engines to prevent accidents like one that killed a passenger last year

Some U.S. House Democrats want a review of the Keystone pipeline and the federal agency that regulates it

The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a female pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona

Boeing’s 737 Max jet gets another boost at Dubai Airshow from Kazakhstan’s newly-launched budget carrier

A federal safety board is expected to consider the cause of a deadly engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight last year

A new lawsuit details a desperate scramble for safety as water rushed in when a container ship collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer off Japan’s coast two years ago, killing seven sailors

A highway safety group says over 800 rear-seat passengers who weren’t wearing seat belts died last year in U.S. traffic crashes, showing that states aren’t making enough progress in getting people to buckle up

An oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota has affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported

Airbus nails down $30 billion in new plane orders on 2nd day of Dubai Airshow after previous rounds saw Boeing take lion’s share of deals

Turkey’s SunExpress airline announces order for 10 of 737 Max jets grounded globally after crashes worth $1.2 billion

Dubai’s Emirates to buy 20 more wide-body Airbus A350s, bringing total order to 50 planes in a deal worth $16 billion

The Latest: Emirati budget carrier Air Arabia announces purchase of 120 new Airbus planes in deal worth $14 billion

Dubai Airshow opens as major Gulf airlines rein back big-ticket purchases amid strains on the industry

Authorities say a collision between two passenger jets on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport has caused damage but left no one injured

Top Boeing executive says company knows it has to re-earn the public’s trust as it works to get grounded 737 Max jets flying after deadly crashes

Boeing is settling a few more of the lawsuits filed by families of passengers who died in two crashes involving the company’s 737 Max jet

United Airlines is pulling the Boeing 737 Max from its schedule until March 4, 2 months longer than before

Germany’s parliament has approved a bill to introduce a price for carbon emissions in the transport and heating sectors as part of a broader package of measures designed to tackle climate change

Strike begins at South Africa’s state-owned airline as workers fear nearly 1,000 job cuts