Transportation

Huge explosions in a warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day, killing at least 44 people and injuring hundreds in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday.

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A preliminary accident report indicates a pilot killed when his plane crashed at a railroad crossing this month in New York had been directed by an air traffic controller to a landing strip that no longer exists at a closed airport.

The fire official who led the response to a 2014 oil train derailment in Lynchburg, Virginia, criticized CSX Transportation, saying it took two hours for the company's representative to arrive at a command post after the wreck.

Commuter train passes for Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia are being sold at select stations after an online lottery left about 20,000 unsold.

A summer of rail commuting misery is forcing transportation officials to confront a longstanding problem: the decrepit state of the train tunnels between New York City and New Jersey.

A $3 million yacht left Key West this week with two barbeque grills, 250 channels of satellite TV and a just-in-case plan for rescuing stranded Cuban rafters encountered in the Florida Straits.

A Chinese-led consortium began preliminary work Wednesday to salvage a South Korean ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, officials said.

Federal safety officials are investigating an incident in which a US Airways jet struck runway lights while attempting to land after the pilots reported wind shear.

The CEO of Poland's national airline, who is widely credited with turning around the company, has resigned unexpectedly.

Federal safety officials are seeking a $325,000 fine against Southwest Airlines and say that the carrier used a plane too long before making a permanent repair to a crease in the fuselage.

A record 4 million passengers passed through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in June, surpassing the previous record set in August 2014.

The transit network in the nation's capital remained hobbled Tuesday morning following an electrical malfunction that filled a busy subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals.

California's high-speed rail project promises to reduce the Los Angeles to San Francisco trip to less than three hours.

Spanish train drivers have called four days of strikes in September following a breakdown in talks with state rail company Renfe over staffing and working conditions agreements.

If you get on a Spirit Airlines flight, there's a 50-50 chance that your flight will be late.