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As of January 2025, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of a Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [1] [2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 of Flight 320, resulted in fatalities). [2]
American Airlines ordered 25 DC-10s in its first order. [16] [17] The DC-10 made its first flight on August 29, 1970, [18] and received its type certificate from the FAA on July 29, 1971. [19] On August 5, 1971, the DC-10 entered commercial service with American Airlines on a round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Chicago. [20]
Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control and were crossing a runway in poor visibility when North Central Airlines Flight 575, operating the DC-9, were in their takeoff roll on the same runway. The DC-9 attempted to fly over the Convair but struck it and then crash landed back on the runway.
American Eagle flight 5342 was traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., and had 60 passengers and four crew members on board, American Airlines said in a statement.
An American Airlines flight traveling from Wichita, Kan. collided with a military helicopter at DC’s Reagan National Airport around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Some 300 first responders worked ...
This midair incident occurred about 24 hours before American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River as the passenger plane from Wichita, Kan ...
Most of the flights were offered by American Airlines, [41]: 1 [42] and the airline was described as having a virtual monopoly on the route. [41]: 2 Around 90% of the passengers on the accident flight were of Dominican descent. [43] The Guardian described the flight as having "cult status" in Washington Heights, a Dominican area of Manhattan. [43]
American Airlines passengers feared for their lives Thursday when a bird flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing the plane to quickly make an emergency touchdown at the ...