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Pan Am Flight 914 is an urban legend that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after a takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. The legend alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 57 passengers and 5 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2, 1955.
On December 10, 1958, National became the first airline to operate domestic jet flights, using a Boeing 707 leased from Pan American World Airways between Miami and New York. [8] In 1959 the Lockheed L-188 Electra was introduced into the fleet. It was the only turboprop aircraft type ever operated by the airline. [20]
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In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji. [24] In 1971, American acquired Trans Caribbean Airways. On March 30, 1973, American became the first major airline to employ a female pilot when Bonnie Tiburzi was hired to fly Boeing 727s ...
Flights canceled Sunday out of John Glenn included: American Airlines flights to Miami, Philadelphia, Boston and New York; United Airlines flights to Washington, Orlando and Newark, New Jersey; a ...
With the addition of Miami, American Airlines now serves Wilmington International Airport with eight nonstop destinations, including Philadelphia, New York-LaGuardia, Boston, Washington, D.C ...
In 1988, on American Airlines Flight 132's approach into Nashville, flight attendants notified the cockpit that there was smoke in the cabin. The flight crew in the cockpit ignored the warning, as on a prior flight, a fume event had occurred due to a problem with the auxiliary power unit. However, the smoke on Flight 132 was caused by ...
December 31, 1984, American Airlines Flight 626, a DC-10, was hijacked during a flight from St. Croix Airport to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport by a prisoner who was under armed escort. Feigning flight sickness, he went into the restroom and came out with a gun.