By Anonymous AVIATION SAFETY The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) commended Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its final rule on reducing fuel tank flammability in transport category airplanes.

By JOAN LOWY ASHBURN, Va. -- A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people aboard.

By John Valenti Newsday MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The explosion and flash shattered the summer twilight, and debris and fuel rained down through the darkness and set our ocean on fire.

By Tom Brune, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 17--WASHINGTON -- Within five months of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, the National Transportation Safety Board suggested a federal regulation to address the fuel tank explosion that caused the jet's destruction.

By John Valenti, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 17--The explosion and flash shattered the summer twilight, and debris and fuel rained down through the darkness and set our ocean on fire.