With its left engine missing, American Airlines Flight 191 goes into a severe roll, then crashes in a burst of flames less than a mile away from the runway in 1979. These photos were taken by Michael ...

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Friday, May 25, 1979. The long Memorial Day weekend beckoned. The sky was luminous, the spring air blessedly warm. O’Hare International Airport teemed with travelers. At 3:02 p.m., air traffic ...

Thirty-two years of waiting to memorialize the victims of American Airlines Flight 191 is long enough, says Melody Smith of Arlington Heights, whose parents were killed in a crash on this day in 1979.

The deadliest day in the history of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was Aug. 2, 1985, when the crash of Delta Flight 191 killed 137 people. Twenty-eight years later, officials say, the lessons ...

As JetBlue Flight 191 climbed into the morning sky over New York, the first portent of trouble emerged. Capt. Clayton F. Osbon muttered "something ... about being evaluated by someone" and "spoke ...