Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Headphones, Pedestrians and Railroad Tracks Don't Mix

  Eddie Farah | October 26, 2009 5:35 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  This is a very sad story to report out of Auburndale, Florida. An 18-year-old high school student was walking along Amtrak train tracks wearing headphones and apparently didn’t hear an...

• What Happened Before Man Jumped Off The Carnival Sensation

  Eddie Farah | September 04, 2009 1:34 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Martha Jackson, a passenger on the Carnival Sensation, returning from four nights in the Bahamas, heard the splash. A 34-year-old unidentified man from Philadelphia jumped from his sixth-deck suite...

• Disney Discovery Denied In Monorail Death

  Eddie Farah | July 16, 2009 9:52 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Lawyers representing the mother of the 21-year-old pilot of a Disney monorail ,who died July 5, have been denied the opportunity to inspect all of the evidence into the death of Austin...

• Two Federal Investigations Into Disney

  Eddie Farah | July 07, 2009 10:30 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  With Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) already conducting a probe, now the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced it too will examine the fatal monorail...

• FAA Must Pay $3.75 Million For Doomed Flight Instructions

  Eddie Farah | June 04, 2009 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to pay $3.75 million after it gave faulty landing instructions during an emergency in December 2005. Pilot Gary Tillman of Rome, Georgia, his...

• NTSB Investigation Into Flight That Killed Jacksonville Law Student

  Eddie Farah | May 14, 2009 9:00 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Jacksonville has a connection to the airline crash that is the focus of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing. A local law student was one of the 49 passengers aboard who died when...

• Texting Truck Driver Arresting After Hitting School Bus

  Eddie Farah | April 08, 2009 1:35 AM | 2 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Seven months after a school bus erupted into flames, killing one student aboard, the driver of an 18-wheeler that caused the crash has finally been arrested. 30-year-old Reinaldo Gonzales turned...

• School Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off

  Eddie Farah | February 21, 2009 11:07 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  This Jacksonville school bus driver had simply had enough. Several Ribault Middle School students were messing around on the bus, threatening to open the emergency door on the back of the bus. A...

• Brace For Impact- Would You Know What To Do In An Airplane Ditching?

  Eddie Farah | January 17, 2009 12:33 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Brace For Impact,” are the last words you want to hear when you are on an airplane. But that is exactly what was said to the 148 passengers onboard a US Airways A320 airbus leaving New...

• Tea Leaves May Forcast Sailor's Future

  Eddie Farah | January 10, 2009 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The tea leaves from this cup have forecast disaster for Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Javier Trevino and his job as an air traffic controller at the Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville. When a...