No nation I know of ever parades the real thing,” noted ST Analytics CEO Markus Schiller, while talking about the elaborate missile shows that monopolize military parades in Moscow to Pyongyang.

The black boxes retrieved from the American Airlines plane and the military helicopter that collided over the Potomac River near Washington D.C. have been retrieved and are being reviewed.

The initial focus of the military investigation is on the altitude of the helicopter at the time of the crash and the communications between air traffic control and the helicopter, U.S. defense ...

The plane carried 60 passengers and four crew. Three soldiers were aboard the helicopter. One air traffic controller was doing work normally assigned to two people in the tower at Reagan National ...