Tag: Accidents
Italian prosecutors open shipwreck and manslaughter investigation into superyacht sinking
ROME -- Prosecutors in Italy said Saturday they have opened an investigation into culpable shipwreck and multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during...
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was trying to bounce back from HP fraud case before being lost at sea
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon...
Justice Department defends Boeing plea deal against criticism by 737 Max crash victims' families
DALLAS -- The Justice Department is defending a plea deal it struck with Boeing over planes that crashed and killed 346 people, saying...
Ford, Mazda warn owners to stop driving older vehicles with dangerous Takata air bag inflators
DETROIT -- Ford and Mazda are warning the owners of more than 475,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them because...
Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo as experts work to identify the dead
SAO PAULO -- Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil are gathering Sunday at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo...
5 people killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains northwest of Nepal's capital
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- All five people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed Wednesday in the mountains just northwest of Nepal’s...