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FedEx’s Secret Shield: Why Cargo Planes Flew With Anti-Missile Lasers

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 ...
The New York Times

UPS and FedEx Ground MD-11 Cargo Planes After Louisville Crash

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 ...
WRAL

FedEx asks FAA permission to add anti-missile system to some cargo planes

CNN — FedEx wants to operate cargo planes outfitted with lasers that throw off incoming heat-seeking missiles, according to a newly published federal documents. In a filing Friday, the Federal ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

UPS, FedEx ground over 50 cargo planes after deadly Louisville crash

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

FedEx Incurs $25 Million in Costs in November From Grounding of MD-11 Planes

A Fedex cargo airplane last year. (johan ordonez/AFP/Getty Images) FedEx said it incurred $25 million in additional costs in November after last month’s UPS cargo plane crash led to the grounding of ...
USA Today

UPS plane crash: How often do cargo jets go down?

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 ...