Lewis Katz

A federal report suggests the crew of a private jet that crashed in Massachusetts, killing Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and six other people, didn't perform a flight control check before attempting takeoff. A preliminary report Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board on the May 31 crash at Hanscom Field also indicated a possible problem with a mechanical gust lock system,

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says ``the world will never be as much fun'' as it was before the death of businessman Lewis Katz. Rendell spoke Wednesday at a memorial for Lewis, a sports team owner-turned-philanthropist. The 72-year-old Katz and six others died Saturday when Katz's private plane crashed upon takeoff near Boston...

Accident investigators are still looking for the black box recorders from last week's jet crash outside Boston. A spokesman for the NTSB says there's a wide debris field about two-thousand feet from the Hanscom Airfield runway where the Gulfstream jet attempted to take off on Saturday night...

The co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, Lewis Katz, was killed along with six other people in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, just days after reaching a deal that many hoped would end months of infighting at the newspaper and help restore it to its former glory. ...