Black Box of Flight 911 (2)

When flight nine eleven turned from its seemingly innocent trajectory, the Commissioner, like everyone else, had been watching television. The image of the plane and the sudden, buckling - toppling of the tower - like the chimney steeples of his childhood - began to prey on his mind. Everything it was felt hinged on the black box, and the black box had not been found.
Maintaining it reflected badly on the police that they still had not found the black box, the commissioner exhorted his officers. Although, in recent months, they had received no threats, they were under pressure from all sides. The thought they would have to conduct a witch-hunt under his jurisdiction frankly appalled him. - Even if the black box contains what we do not wish to hear, he told them, we must aim to settle all this idle speculation.