Passengers on a British Airways flight to Barcelona, Spain, were forced to evacuate the aircraft on the airport runway after landing Sunday when fumes were apparently detected in the aircraft's cabin. There were no serious injuries, British Airways officials told CNN. Flight BA478, from London's Heathrow Airport, had landed in Barcelona at 9:45 a.m. local time (3:45 a.m. ET). Emergency slides were deployed, and emergency authorities were called to attend the aircraft. The Boeing 757 aircraft was carrying 176 ...

If there was ever any question over the importance of finding the black boxes from Air France flight 447 then there is certainly none now. Most of what we heard from Thursday's briefing by the investigating team only serves to deepen the mystery behind the loss of the Airbus A330. Lead investigator Alain Bouillard sums matters up when he says: "As of today we are far from having any real idea of the causes of this accident."" Consider what we ...