1.   But with each news conference or leak about the cockpit tapes, Muslim scholars note, comes more speculation and more stereotypes.

2.   By law, the National Transportation Safety Board, which handles all aviation accidents, is forbidden to play cockpit tapes for anyone except parties in the investigation.

3.   Catherine Hazen, the widow of the co-pilot, Richard Hazen, made a plea to be allowed to listen to the cockpit voice recorder tape.

4.   If the cockpit tape is also in good condition, investigators will have crucial evidence of how the pilots assessed the emergency and whether their response was proper.

5.   In both cases, the cockpit voice recorder tapes ended with a fraction-of-a-second noise, which also happened on the TWA flight.

6.   Now, living with an eventuality neither could have foreseen, Deena Burnett waited to hear the cockpit tape.

7.   The Federal Aviation Administration releases the cockpit tapes of an American Airlines flight that nearly crashed approaching Bradley International Airport in November.

8.   The last sound on the cockpit tape was of a muffled crash.

9.   The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates aviation accidents, has never before allowed relatives to listen to cockpit tapes.

10.   The Safety Board said, though, that it would treat the video images just as it treats the cockpit voice recorder tapes, playing them only for investigators.