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These are the airports served by American Airlines' American Eagle brand, composed of six FAA and DOT certificated regional airlines. Three regional airlines, Envoy Air , PSA Airlines , and Piedmont Airlines , are wholly owned subsidiaries of American, but whose aircraft are in American Eagle livery. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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 ...
In 1961, a new 145,000 square feet (13,500 m 2) terminal opened off of Briley Parkway, west of runway 2L. 1961 also saw the first scheduled jets at Berry Field, American Airlines 720/720Bs. For the first time, more than half a million people passed through the airport when the six airlines that served Nashville carried 532,790 passengers.
This is a list of airports in Tennessee (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
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 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 ...
American Airlines Flight 009 was a flight from New York City to Los Angeles. On the morning of February 23, 1945, while flying over Rural Retreat, Virginia, on the Washington-Nashville leg, the Douglas DC-3 struck the wooded summit of Glade Mountain in the Appalachian Mountains, killing 17 of the 22 occupants on board.