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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Ukrainian plane crash in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran invites NTSB to join Ukraine plane crash probe

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In this Sept. 12, 2017 file photo, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announces new voluntary safety guidelines for self-driving cars during a visit to an autonomous vehicle testing facility at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Trump administration announced its most recent round of guidelines for autonomous vehicle makers, continuing to rely on the industry to police itself despite calls for specific regulations. Chao announced the proposed guidelines in a speech Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas, saying in prepared remarks that “AV 4.0” will ensure U.S. leadership in developing new technologies.(Hunter Dyke/The Ann Arbor News via AP, File) **FILE**

New US plan keeps autonomous vehicle standards voluntary

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 file photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Cutter William Hart moves toward the Na Pali Coast on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the day after a tour helicopter disappeared with seven people aboard. The Hawaii tour helicopter that crashed and killed all seven people on board hit a ridge at an altitude of 2,900 feet (883 meters) then fell about 100 feet (30 meters), the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday, Dec. 31, as investigators planned how to recover the wreckage from the remote and rugged crash site. (MK3 Forest Herring/U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

Hawaii crash update: Tour copter hit ridge, then fell

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

Fallen tree limbs covers the ground near the site of a plane crash near Feu Follet Road and Verot School Road in Lafayette, La., Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019. Authorities confirmed the accident but details on whether anyone was injured was not immediately known.(Scott Clause/The Lafayette Advertiser via AP)

Plane crash kills 5, including LSU coach’s daughter-in-law

By JANELLE COGAN and SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, firefighters put out hot spots after a plane crashed into a home in Upland, Calif. According to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board, the single-engine Cirrus SR22 was getting ready to land at nearby Cable Airport when its wing dipped and the engine stalled. The pilot was killed in the fiery crash Nov. 7 in Upland, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. A father and small child inside the home escaped without injuries. (Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

Report: Plane stalled before crash into California home

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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, emergency workers respond to an explosion at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis. Federal investigators say a pipefitting crew lacked proper training when they moved a gas meter just before a Minneapolis school explosion that killed two people in 2017. The National Transportation Safety Board released its report Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 on the explosion at Minnehaha Academy. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, File)

NTSB: Poor training led to 2017 Minneapolis school explosion

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FILE- In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo a Southwest Airlines jet moves on the runway as a person eats at a terminal restaurant at LaGuardia Airport in New York. The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting Tuesday, Nov. 19 in Washington to consider the cause of a deadly engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight last year. The incident killed a passenger who was blown partly out of the plane when a piece of the engine shattered the window next to her. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Safety board favors redesign of engine part on Boeing 737s

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

This file image made from video March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an exterior view moments before an Uber SUV hit a woman in Tempe, Ariz. 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 pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona. Robert Sumwalt said at a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, on the March 2018 crash that Uber didn’t continually monitor its operations and it had de-activated its Volvo SUV’s automatic emergency braking system. Uber’s own system also didn’t have the ability to brake automatically, relying on a human backup driver to do the braking. (Tempe Police Department via AP, File) **FILE**

Official: Safety lacking before Uber self-driving car crash

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 17, 2019, file photo shows a commuter airplane that crashed near the airport in a small Alaska community on the Bering Sea in Unalaska, Alaska. The flight crew of the plane that crashed in the remote Alaska community in October, fatally injuring a man, abandoned an initial landing attempt and faced stronger winds on their second try before the plane went off the runway, according to a federal report released Friday, Nov. 15. (Jim Paulin via AP, File)

Report: Pilots faced shifting winds before fatal crash

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 23, 2018 file photo, a duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised after it went down the evening of July 19 after a thunderstorm generated near-hurricane strength winds, killing 17 people. The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, released a &quot;Safety Recommendation Report&quot; on the accident. The NTSB says the Coast Guard has repeatedly ignored safety recommendations that could have made tourist duck boats safer and potentially prevented the accident. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)

NTSB: Coast Guard ignored duck boat safety proposals

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2018, file photo, crushed cars lie under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Florida International University in Miami. Federal transportation officials have concluded that design flaws and a lack of oversight led to the collapse of the pedestrian bridge that killed six people last year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

NTSB: Oversight could have prevented Miami bridge collapse

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

FILE - In a Wednesday, April 11, 2018 file photo, a painted bicycle marks a makeshift memorial for a cyclist who was struck by a hit-and-run motorist in Los Angeles. The National Transportation Safety Boar is recommending that all 50 states enact laws requiring bicyclists to wear helmets to stem an increase in bicycle deaths on U.S. roadways, after a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 on bicycle safety. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Agency: All states should require bicyclists to wear helmets

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Report: Pilot had trouble seeing runway in small plane crash

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Woodbridge firefighters work to extinguish the scene of a plane crash at a home in Woodbridge, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Small plane crashes, leaving pilot dead, houses ablaze

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

US agency eyes fatal crash involving self-driving car

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A commuter airplane has crashed near the airport in a small Alaska community on the Bering Sea, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Unalaska, Alaska. Freelance photographer Jim Paulin says the crash at the Unalaska airport occurred Thursday after 5 p.m. Paulin says the Peninsula Airways flight from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor landed about 500 feet (152 meters) beyond the airport near the water. (Jim Paulin via AP)

1 dead after plane landing on Alaska island went off runway

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 15, 2018, file photo, emergency personnel respond after a new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at Florida International University in Miami. Federal transportation officials say that Louis Berger Group, Inc., the firm charged with reviewing the design of the FIU bridge that collapsed and killed six people, was not properly qualified by the state. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP, File)

NTSB: Firm tied to collapsed Miami bridge wasn’t qualified

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2018 file photo, a New York state trooper and members of the National Transportation Safety Board view the scene of a fatal crash that killed 20 people in Schoharie, N.Y. The National Transportation Safety Board called Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, for new seat belt requirements for limousines almost a year after a Ford Excursion SUV that had been modified into a huge stretch limo blew through a T-intersection in rural Schoharie and went into the woods. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

NTSB seeks new seat belt requirements for limos after crash

By MICHAEL HILL and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

NTSB recommends seat belts, stronger seats for new limos

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FILE - In this April 8, 2019, file photo a Boeing 737 MAX 7 jet is parked near single engine planes at the airport adjacent to a Boeing Co. production facility in Renton, Wash. Federal safety officials say Boeing should consider how cockpit confusion can slow the response of pilots who are dealing with the kind of problem that likely caused two airliners to crash in the past year. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Safety board: Boeing should reconsider pilots’ response time

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press