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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.
American Airlines Flight 191 [170] 25 May 1979 Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S. McDonnell Douglas DC-10: 2 5 7 †, ‡ 4 Barra do Garças air disaster [171] 1 June 1980 Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso, Brazil Embraer EMB 721 Sertanejo: 2 154 156: 6 (one on aircraft) Northwest Airlines Flight 255 [172] 16 August 1987 Romulus, Michigan, U.S. McDonnell ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW ...
On Aug. 2, 1985, around 6:05 p.m., the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Florida to Los Angeles with 163 people aboard crashed short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and ...
The May 3, 1968, crash of Braniff Flight 352 south of Fort Worth was the deadliest airline disaster in Texas history at the time, killing all 85 on board. ... 1985, when Delta Flight 191 crashed ...
American Airlines Flight 191: Des Plaines: Illinois: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10: The left engine separated from the aircraft during takeoff due to improper maintenance, damaging the left wing and causing its leading-edge slats to retract, leading to an unrecoverable asymmetric aerodynamic stall. Two on the ground were also killed.
November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
In March, Lisa Archbold held a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, and explained how on a Delta flight to San Francisco, she was asked to deplane due to her choice of clothing, NBC ...