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The exterior of the North terminal is seen at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Report says thick smoke filled the cabin of a Delta plane that took off from Atlanta in February

Smoke that filled the cabin of a Delta flight as it took off from the Atlanta airport in February was so thick the lead flight attendant had trouble seeing past the first row of passengers and the pilots donned oxygen masks as a precaution.

In this Friday Jan. 25, 2019, file photo is the air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Passenger jet had to abort takeoff to avoid runway collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport

In this photo taken from video, a helicopter falls from the sky into the Hudson River , Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (Bruce Wall via AP)

New report shows NYC helicopter breaking apart in midair before crash that killed 6

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy, center, pauses while speaking accompanied by NTSB Investigator in Charge, Marcel Muise, left, and NTSB board member Alvin Brown, during a news conference, March 27, 2024, in Linthicum Heights, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from position

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a news conference, March 11, 2025, at the Department of Transportation in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport ‘unacceptable,’ top official says

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NTSB says weather alert system and runway lights were out at San Diego airport before crash

The weather alert system and runway lights weren’t working at a foggy San Diego airport where a private jet was planning to land before it crashed into a neighborhood, NTSB officials said Friday, adding that they haven’t yet determined the cause of the crash. (AP video: Eugene Garcia)

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NTSB finds that plane clipped power lines before hitting home in San Diego neighborhood

Small plane crashes into Simi Valley in southern California, killing 1 person

NTSB gives update on upstate New York plane crash that killed six

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Emergency crews respond after plane crashed into the Platte River killing multiple people Friday, April 18, 2025, in Fremont, Neb. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Small plane hit power line before crashing into the Platte River in Nebraska

Emergency crews respond after a plane crashed into the Platte River killing several people Friday, April 18, 2025, in Fremont, Neb. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

NTSB is investigating after a small plane crashed into a Nebraska river and killed 3 on board

Emergency personnel battle against a fire aboard the Italian-flagged Grande Costa d'Avorio cargo ship at the Port of Newark, July 7, 2023, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NTSB finds ‘failure’ in training before deadly Newark cargo ship fire

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board investigate the wreckage of a site seeing helicopter, Friday, April 11, 2025, that crashed into the Hudson River a day earlier in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

What we know about the New York City helicopter crash that killed 6 people

A New York Police Department scuba team looks for debris, Friday, April 11, 2025, where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Divers search for parts after NYC helicopter crash killed a family of five and the pilot, a Navy vet

This screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC shows the collapsed section of I-95 as crews continue to work on the scene in Philadelphia, Monday, June 12, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP, File)

Interstate 95 crash in Philadelphia resulted from driver’s failure to slow down, investigators find

Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Air traffic controllers to get more support after a fight and latest near miss at Washington airport

This photo provided by the Alaska National Guard shows an airplane partially submerged into the ice of Tustumena Lake at the toe of a glacier on Monday, March 24, 2025, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Alaska National Guard via AP)

Probe continues in misuse of student license for pilot whose plane was submerged in icy Alaska lake

Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, center, stands next to map showing flight restrictions as the Senate Transportation Subcommittee holds a hearing to examine the preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board on the Jan. 29, 2024, midair collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FAA acknowledges it must do better after deadly DC air collision

Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

NTSB chairwoman says reviewing the data after midair crash may prevent the next aviation accident

In this photo released by the Wyoming Highway Patrol, charred vehicles are seen after a Friday accident and fire in the Green River Tunnel along Interstate 80, Feb. 15, 2025, in Green River, Wyo. (Wyoming Highway Patrol via AP, File)

Deadly crashes and fire in Wyoming highway tunnel started with pickup losing control, NTSB says

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows ice accumulation that was observed by investigators on the rear stabilizers of a plane, Feb. 7, 2025, the day after after a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

US investigators say Alaska plane was overweight for icy conditions in crash that killed 10

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, accompanied by investigator in charge Brice Banning, left, speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died in midair crash

NTSB cites intolerable risk of collisions and urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 died

Investigators look over a small plane crash alongside eastbound Interstate 40 at mile marker 202 on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Pilot error likely caused a small plane crash in Tennessee that killed a Canadian family, NTSB says

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and other officials view the aftermath of a fatal small plane crashed in Philadelphia, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Medical plane’s voice recorder likely wasn’t working for years before Philadelphia crash

Salvage crews work near the wreckage site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)

A timeline of the January air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001

Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

What is known about the deadly January air crash between a passenger jet and US Army helicopter

In this image provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB investigators examine cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, recovered from the American Airlines passenger jet that crashed with an Army helicopter Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (NTSB via AP)

What to know about the NTSB, the agency investigating the DC plane crash

Damage to a train is seen at the site where a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in Reeves County, Texas on Wednesday, 18, 2024. (Daniel Alvarado/Reeves County, Texas via AP)

NTSB trying to determine why tractor-trailer stopped on train tracks before deadly West Texas crash

FILE - Chicago Fire and Police Departments triage patients at the scene of a Chicago Transit Authority train crash, Nov. 16, 2023, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Chicago train operator had alcohol in his system during 2023 crash, officials say

Driver fatigue likely led to Arizona crash that killed 2 bicyclists and injured 14, NTSB says

FILE - Union Pacific dispatchers keep track of trains moving across the western United States at the Harriman Dispatch Center in Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Josh Funk, File)

Investigators say dispatching errors led to Union Pacific train crash that killed 2 workers

NTSB report faults trucking company logs in fatal 2022 bus crash

Roadside Tesla Semi fire where temperatures reached 1,000 degrees draws in NTSB investigative team

The top section of the door plug from the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282's Boeing 737-9 MAX airplane is shown at the National Transportation Safety Board laboratory, in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The door plug is showing damaged bolts on the top right corner. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

A panel that blew off a Boeing jet will get star billing during a Washington hearing

FILE - In this image provided by KFOR-TV, a heavily damaged vehicle is seen off a road in Tishomingo, Okla., following a two-vehicle collision in which six teenage students were killed, March 22, 2022. The crash has the National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana. (NewsNation KFOR via AP File)

After crash that killed 6 teens, NTSB chief says people underestimate marijuana’s impact on drivers

Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during a board meeting concerning the February 3, 2023, train derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with derailment probe after botching vent-and-burn call

FILE - A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of the controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside after the East Palestine derailment, Norfolk Southern said Friday, June 21, 2024 it plans to lead an industrywide effort to improve the way those decisions are made.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Norfolk Southern said ahead of the NTSB hearing that railroads will examine vent and burn decisions

FILE - This screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC shows the collapsed section of I-95 with fire trucks on the scene in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. A report released on June 11, 2024, says the gasoline delivery truck that destroyed the I-95 bridge a year ago says gasoline spilled out from an unsecured hatch on the top of the tanker. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)

Report says unsecured tanker hatch spilled out gas in crash that destroyed I-95 bridge in Philly