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

In 1996, Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 was carrying 230 people when it exploded minutes after taking off, killing everyone on board. The plane’s wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island.

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 ...