As flight failed, frenzy in cockpit
The first sign of trouble was a glitch that appeared in the air speed sensors. Inside the sleek cockpit of Air France 447, according to French aviation experts, the crew...
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A double standard on taxes?
The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses. Now, as Wednesday's tax deadline...
Law lands hard on unruly fliers
Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary...
Attorneys resisted death cases
Margaret Chiara, a former U.S. attorney in Grand Rapids, Mich., appealed several times to the Justice Department against having to seek the federal death penalty. In hindsight, for her it...
Mirror, mirror on the side
Many drivers exacerbate visibility problems by failing to properly adjust their side-view mirrors So says Richard Van Iderstine, who last year retired from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after...
Floodwater deals blow to Lake Pontchartrain
The high-stakes effort to bail out New Orleans is sending plumes of contaminated, brown, stinking water into Lake Pontchartrain, setting back years of effort to restore the environmentally sensitive home...
Sandbags a giant step to recovery
Black Hawk helicopters dropped 1.5-ton sandbags to plug a gaping hole in a canal wall Thursday as the Army Corps of Engineers began planning to bring in new pumps to...
At last, shuttle returns to space
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - With the thunderous roar of 7.5 million pounds of thrust, equivalent to the power of a small nuclear device, America re-launched its era of space...
Panel to urge fixing foam before NASA resumes flights
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board is preparing to recommend as early as this week that NASA fix foam insulation problems linked to the shuttle tragedy before resuming space flights, an...
NASA knew of falling foam, saw it as no shuttle danger
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA almost certainly violated its own flight safety margins when it repeatedly launched shuttles knowing that they could be hit by foam debris from the external...