Military and Commercial Accidents

National Transportation Safety Board – Aviation Investigation Manual – Major Team Investigations, November 2002

Background NOTE: This manual is a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) staff product and is intended to provide information and…

January 23, 2017

Summaries of Nuclear Weapon and Material Accidents – Department of Energy – National Nuclear Security Administration

Background While sifting through thousands of different pages of documents, I found references to some previously, never-before-released (that I saw)…

December 1, 2016

Possible Determination of an Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence at Three Mile Island Unit 2, April 2, 1979

Background The following documents is a COMMISSIONER ACTION memo, labeled SECY-79-235 from Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,…

November 22, 2016

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) NAS Daily Event Logs

Recently, I was contacted about some very important documents that exist within the FAA holdings, referred to as the NAS…

November 29, 2015

Bent Spear: Minot Air Force Base (08-29-2007)

The 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident occurred at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base…

March 1, 2015

FAA Office of Aviation Research Report Index

The following documents were obtained from the FAA.  Although not all about aircraft accidents, this serves as an interesting guide…

February 28, 2015

N71MC — Hudson Mid-Air Collision (08-08-2009)

On August 08, 2009, a midair collision occurred between a sightseeing helicopter and a single-engine plane over the Hudson River. Below…

February 28, 2015

USS Minneapolis St. Paul, Four Sailor Deaths, 12/29/2006

Four crew members were washed overboard by heavy waves on 29 December 2006 in Plymouth Sound, England as the ship…

February 28, 2015

Collision between USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans, March 20, 2009

Background The USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision was a collision between the United States Navy Los Angeles-class submarine…

February 28, 2015

USS San Francisco (SSN-711) Crash, January 2005

Background On 8 January 2005 at 02:43 GMT, San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 675 kilometers (364 Nautical…

February 28, 2015