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Passenger airlines in the U.S. have recorded a remarkable period of safety over the past 10 years. Not so the nation’s cargo planes. Five domestically registered aircraft have crashed since 2009 — killing 16 people — including Saturday’s violent plunge …

Government accident investigators want the Federal Aviation Administration to require fire suppression systems in all cargo planes. The goal is to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight fires responsible for the deaths of four pilots in three accidents since 2006. …