In the early 2000s, ten FedEx cargo planes quietly flew across U.S. skies equipped with laser-based anti-missile defense systems. For more than a year, these modified MD-10s carried military-grade ...

Watch the Video Lee opened the conversation by pointing to the timing of the cargo-plane crisis. Just as peak shipping season begins, both FedEx and UPS have had to pull aging aircraft from service ...

Boeing, the plane’s manufacturer, said it had recommended the grounding as a precaution while it conducts further analysis. By Francesca Regalado and Qasim Nauman UPS and FedEx, two of the world’s ...

FedEx has cancelled all scheduled MD-11 operations for December as regulators continue a sweeping inspection mandate on the ...

UPS and FedEx said on Friday they have grounded their combined fleet of more than 50 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo planes following a crash in Louisville, Kentucky this week that killed at least 14 ...

UPS and FedEx are grounding their fleets of MD-11 planes "out of an abundance of caution." That type of plane was the one that crashed this week at the UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky. Fourteen ...

At least 14 people have died following the plane crash in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 4 Michael Swensen/Getty On Friday, Nov. 7, UPS and FedEx announced the decision to ground over 50 McDonnell ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft grounded pending further inspection, following UPS and FedEx each deciding to ground the planes that make up part ...

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's live coverage of the UPS plane crash in Louisville, KY, for Wednesday, Nov. 5. LOUISVILLE, KY – The crews are small. They fly fewer flights. Cargo planes operate ...

In our news wrap Saturday, UPS and FedEx grounded their MD-11 cargo planes after Tuesday’s deadly crash in Kentucky, a federal judge said Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to Portland, a ...