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An Alaskan jury finds Brian Smith guilty of the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.
2024-02-22

The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States rules that driver inattention and the design of Tesla's Autopilot feature were jointly the cause of a 2018 crash. A separate fatal Tesla crash remains subject to investigation by the Board.
2019-09-5

The US National Transportation Safety Board reveals the lithium ion battery on a Tesla Model S involved in a double-fatality crash in Florida reignited twice after initially being extinguished by firefighters. It also reveals the vehicle was traveling at 116mph when the accident occurred; Tesla has introduced speed limiters on their cars as a result.
2018-06-26

The United States National Transportation Safety Board declares metal fatigue caused a fan blade failure that killed a passenger on April 16, the same issue behind a similar accident on another Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 in 2016. The Federal Aviation Administration announces mandatory ultrasonic inspections on fan blades fitted to CFM56-7B engines of which around 8,000 are flying worldwide.
2018-04-19

Tesla Inc. withdraws from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's probe of a fatal Model X crash in California. Tesla had drawn the NTSB's ire by releasing information publicly about its view of the case and about the car's Autopilot feature, something the Board does not allow during active investigations.
2018-04-12

An arriving passenger from Alaska removes his checked-baggage pistol and kills five people and injures six at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Florida.
2017-01-6

The Alaska village of Nelson Lagoon is coated in volcanic ash after an especially vigorous and ongoing eruption of Mount Pavlof.
2016-03-28

Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
2015-02-26

Royal Dutch Shell's drilling rig "Kulluk" drifts aground near Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, after breaking loose from the anchor handling tug "Aiviq".
2013-01-1

U.S. Rep. Don Young R-Alaska claims that he has been cleared in a United States Department of Justice corruption probe.
2010-08-4