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FILE - In this March 23, 2018, file photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work a the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, Calif. The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety recommendation urging California transportation officials to move faster to repair highway safety barriers damaged by vehicles. The NTSB recommendation Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 comes in a report that says California officials failed to fix a highway safety barrier before the fatal March, 2018 collision that killed an Apple engineer driving in Autopilot mode. The barrier had been damaged 11 days earlier. (KTVU-TV via AP, File)

NTSB: California should fix highway safety barriers faster

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FBI investigators unload equipment to begin examining evidence obtained from the wreckage of the dive boat Conception on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Santa Barbara, Calif. A fire raged through the boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California Coast on Monday, Sept. 2, leaving multiple people dead. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)

Fire foiled rescued attempts by California boat crew

By STEFANIE DAZIO - Associated Press

This image made from video provided by KABC-TV shows the outlined search area where divers are searching the wreckage of the sunken dive boat Conception, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, after it burned and sank Sunday, off Santa Cruz Island in Southern California's Channel Islands. (KABC-TV via AP)

The Latest: Feds interview captain in deadly boat fire

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NTSB: Metal fatigue caused wing to snap in fatal plane crash

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FILE - This Jan. 22, 2018, file still frame from video provided by KCBS-TV shows a Tesla Model S electric car that has crashed into a fire engine on Interstate 405 in Culver City, Calif. A government report says the driver of the Tesla that slammed into a firetruck was using the car’s Autopilot system when a vehicle in front of him suddenly changed lanes and he didn’t have time to react. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, that the driver never saw the parked firetruck and didn’t brake. (KCBS-TV via AP, File)

NTSB: Autopilot flaw, driver inattention caused Tesla crash

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 22, 2018, file still frame from video provided by KCBS-TV shows a Tesla Model S electric car that has crashed into a fire engine on Interstate 405 in Culver City, Calif. A government report says the driver of the Tesla that slammed into a firetruck was using the car’s Autopilot system when a vehicle in front of him suddenly changed lanes and he didn’t have time to react. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, that the driver never saw the parked firetruck and didn’t brake. (KCBS-TV via AP, File)

NTSB: Tesla on Autopilot when it hit California firetruck

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

NTSB cites likely overloading, stability in boat capsizing

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

NTSB: Pilot safely evacuated passengers from burning plane

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Report: Truck crossed highway line in crash that killed 8

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JAY REEVES - Associated Press

FILE- This Feb. 4, 2018, file photo shows an aerial view of the site of a fatal train crash between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, S.C. Federal officials are meeting to discuss what caused an Amtrak train to divert on to a side track in South Carolina last year and slam into a parked train, killing two crew members and injuring more than 100 passengers. The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jeff Blake, File)

The Latest: CSX agrees on blame for deadly 2018 Amtrak crash

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Correction: Train Crash story

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

NTSB: Pilot flew too low, causing New Mexico fatal crash

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FILE - This Sunday, June 23, 2019 file photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows NTSB investigator Eliott Simpson briefing NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy at the scene of the Hawaii skydiving crash near Waialua, Hawaii on Oahu's North Shore. The National Transportation Safety Board says a witness to the crash that killed 11 people reported the plane's engines sounded normal before takeoff, but shortly after the plane left the ground it became inverted and crashed nose down. The NTSB's preliminary report was released Tuesday, July 9, 2019. No cause for the crash was given, which is typical for preliminary reports. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

Feds: 2 skydivers joined doomed Hawaii flight at last minute

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

National Transportation Safety Board and FBI investigators inspect a hangar at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, Monday, July 1, 2019, the day after a twin-engine plane crashed into the building killing all ten people on board. (Shaban Athuman/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

NTSB: Crew spoke of engine trouble before deadly Texas crash

By JAKE BLEIBERG and DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Damage is seen to a hangar after a twin-engine plane crashed into the building at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, Sunday, June 30, 2019. The small airplane crashed as it was taking off from the Dallas-area airport Sunday morning, a spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas, said. (Shaban Athuman/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Recorder found in Texas plane crash; some victims identified

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press

This image made from video provided by WFAA-TV shows responders at a deadly small plane crash at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, Sunday, June 30, 2019. The small airplane crashed as it was taking off from the Dallas-area airport Sunday morning, a spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas, said. (WFAA-TV via AP)

The Latest: 2 crew, 8 passengers killed in Texas plane crash

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A freight train that derailed in an international tunnel connecting Michigan and Canada, sits on the track, Friday, June 28, 2019, in Port Huron, Mich. City Manager James Freed says the Friday morning wreck involved about 30 to 40 of the train's cars and caused &quot;significant damage&quot; to the track in Port Huron. Freed says thousands of train cars pass through the tunnel daily. He says trains are being rerouted to a crossing in Detroit. (Brian Wells//The Times Herald via AP)

US, Canadian safety officials looking into train derailment

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A memorial is seen at the site where a Beechcraft King Air twin-engine plane crashed Friday evening killing multiple people near the chain link fence surrounding Dillingham Airfield in Mokuleia, Hawaii. Police and sheriffs patrol the area. No one aboard survived the skydiving plane crash. The flight was operated by the Oahu Parachute Center skydiving company. (Dennis Oda/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)

The Latest: Colorado couple among those on Hawaii flight

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This Sunday, June 23, 2019, photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows NTSB investigator Eliott Simpson briefing NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy at the scene of the Hawaii skydiving crash in Oahu, Hawaii. No one aboard survived the crash, which left a small pile of smoky wreckage near the chain link fence surrounding Dillingham Airfield about an hour north of Honolulu. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

Safety agency calls for tighter skydiving flight rules

By CALEB JONES and AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2017, file photo, cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below as some remain on the tracks above in DuPont, Wash. The National Transportation Safety Board has published its final report Monday, June 24, 2019, on a deadly Amtrak derailment in Washington state in 2017, with the agency's vice chairman blasting what he described as a &quot;Titanic-like complacency&quot; among those charged with ensuring train operations are safe. The train was on its first paid passenger run on a new route from Tacoma to Portland, Oregon, when it plunged onto Interstate 5, killing three people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Official blasts complacency before fatal 2017 train crash

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press