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October 30, 1941: American Airlines Flight 1, a Douglas DC-3 en route from New York City to Detroit with two stopovers at Buffalo and Chicago, stalled and dived into a plowed field over St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada killing all 20 on board after circling to look for a place to land. Cause undetermined.
American Airlines Flight 96 (AA96/AAL96) was a regular domestic flight operated by American Airlines from Los Angeles to New York via Detroit and Buffalo. On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off above Windsor, Ontario, after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor ...
Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 crashed into Lake Pontchartrain on February 25, 1964, killing all 58 on board. [ 101] Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashed in New Orleans on March 30, 1967, during a training flight, killing all six crew on board and 13 people on the ground. National Airlines Flight 967 disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico near New ...
Los Angeles International Airport: Los Angeles, California, United States: LAX/KLAX 556,913 9.9% 7. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States: CLT/KCLT 505,589 2 2.8% 8. Miami International Airport: Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States: MIA/KMIA 458,478 1 18.2% 9. John F. Kennedy International Airport
American Airlines flight 345, a Boeing 777 plane, took off from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and landed at Los Angeles International Airport without incident around 8:45 p.m. local time ...
Early history. American Airlines was developed from a conglomeration of 82 small airlines through acquisitions in 1930 [ 2] and reorganizations; initially, American Airways was a common brand used by a number of independent carriers. These included Southern Air Transport [ 3] in Texas, Southern Air Fast Express (SAFE) [ 4] in the western United ...
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control, and the aircraft ...
Five people were injured in the Friday night strike at LAX – the latest in a string of unusual incidents at major airports in just over a month. American Airlines plane and bus collide at LAX ...