Federal safety investigators have recovered black boxes from the wreckage of a United Parcel Service cargo plane that crashed and exploded after takeoff from the airport in Louisville, killing at leas...

The UPS cargo plane crash on Tuesday at the company’s global aviation hub in Kentucky, which killed at least nine, will temporarily disrupt the supply chain and result in some shipping delays.

The problem of fuel efficiency is especially true in the case of the MD-11, which has a third engine embedded in the tail, as opposed to the majority of passenger jets flying over American skies toda...