Approach Quagmire

The pilots of the UPS Airbus A300-600 that slammed into a hill just short of the runway in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 appear to have had difficulty programming the aircraft's navigation system, according to an NTSB investigative hearing on Feb. 20. Information from the flight data and cockpit...

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