Tom Costello

Thomas Eugene Costello is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. His reports appear across NBC News platforms, including online, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and CNBC. His portfolio of coverage includes aviation and transportation, NASA, consumer and regulatory issues, business, and economics. He also serves as a substitute anchor on NBC News Now, the network's streaming platform. Costello joined NBC News in 2004 as a New York–based correspondent. In 2005, he moved to Washington, D.C., at the request of then-Bureau Chief Tim Russert. Before joining NBC News, Costello served as the senior correspondent at CNBC Business News in New York. Since 2005, Costello has been NBC News' lead aviation correspondent. Among the major aviation stories he's covered: two fatal crashes of the 737-MAX and the subsequent investigations; the shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner over Tehran in 2020; the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 370; the crash of Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco; Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic; Colgan Air flight 3407 in Buffalo; Comair flight 5191 in Lexington; and the Miracle on the Hudson landing in 2009 for which NBC News was honored with a prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Emmy Award for Breaking News Coverage. In January, 2021 Costello covered the break in at the U.S. Capitol and the arrests that followed. He's also covered the Coronavirus outbreak and the search for a COVID vaccine; NASA's return to crewed missions with SpaceX; the 2018–2019 government shutdown; the Philadelphia train derailment that killed 8; the 2017 Unite the Right rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, VA; and the deliberate crash of a GermanWings plane in France.