The decision was made two days after the tragic collision of American Airlines passenger plane with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.

Dignity for the deceased and caution for the wreckage. That’s what a retired Navy admiral said about the task underway in the ...

Had controllers been able to detect instantly the flight-path changes and other burgeoning ... grew in part out of the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, whose black boxes took over a week to recover ...