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Flight 752 crash: US and its allies believe missiles fired by Iran downed passenger jet near Tehran airport
•American and allied officials said on Thursday that they had intelligence that missiles fired by Iranian military forces were responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran and the deaths of all aboard this week in Iran, most likely by accident
Uber test self-driving cars were involved in 37 crashes in the past 18 months
•Between September 2016 and March 2018, there were 37 crashes of Uber vehicles in autonomous mode at the time.
Tesla Autopilot design the cause of the 2018 California crash: Report
•The safety board said that the Tesla design permitted the driver to disengage from the driving task.
Florida plane crash: US authorities probe mid-air collision which killed Indian trainee pilot, three others
•Police and aviation authorities in Florida's Miami-Dade are scouring a swampy grassland for clues to help explain what caused the midair collision between two small aircraft in which an Indian woman trainee pilot and three others were killed.
Battery inside the Tesla Model S reignited twice during the 8 May crash: NTSB report
•The Tesla Mode S was travelling 116 miles per hour seconds before it crashed into a metal light pole.
Elon Musk says Tesla is undergoing 'thorough reorganisation' as it deals with a problems including crashes involving its electric cars
•Tesla is developing multiple new vehicles, including a semi-truck and has registered a new car firm in Shanghai in a likely step toward production in China.
Southwest Airlines aircraft has mid-flight engine failure: One dead in first US commercial airline accident in 9 years
•An engine on a Southwest Airlines flight with 149 people aboard exploded mid-air, killing one passenger and nearly sucking another out of a window that was shattered by shrapnel
Tesla lashes out at National Transportation Safety Board after it was removed from the Model X crash investigation
•Driver Walter Huang died after a March 23 crash and vehicle fire in a Tesla Model X near Mountain View, California,
US safety board to conduct field investigation on Tesla vehicle, fire truck accident
•The Culver City, California fire department said in a Twitter post that on Monday an engine was struck by a Tesla “travelling at 65 mph.
Derailed Amtrak train in Washington state was travelling 80 mph in 30 mph zone, says US transport authority
•The passenger train that derailed in Washington state was traveling 80 miles per hour in 30 miles per hour zone, transport investigators have said