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January 22, 1952: American Airlines Flight 6780 (Flagship Baltimore), a Convair 240, was on routing Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse-Newark when it crashed at the intersection of Williamson and South Streets in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southeast of Newark while descending for a landing. The aircraft was noticed to ...
Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217, referred to in the media as the "Miracle on Buffalo Pass", [1] [2] was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Denver that crashed on Buffalo Pass. The aircraft, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, impacted terrain on a gentle slope and was partially buried in snow ...
On September 29, 1959, 23 minutes into the 41-minute flight from Houston to Dallas Love Field, the aircraft disintegrated in mid-air approximately 3.8 miles (6.1 km) southeast of Buffalo, Texas, killing everyone on board. Identifying the cause of the disaster proved difficult, as the accident had occurred before the age of flight data recorders.
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American Airlines [8] is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).
American Airlines resumes flights after brief grounding ahead of busy Christmas travel (Reuters) -American Airlines said on Tuesday its flights had resumed after a technical glitch forced the ...
When the federal government deregulated the airlines in 1978, Buffalo was served by four airlines: three "trunk carriers" (American Airlines, United Airlines, Eastern Air Lines) and one "local service carrier" (Allegheny Airlines). American and United used the East Terminal, and Allegheny and Eastern used the West Terminal. During the "glory ...