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Airlines ranging from one of the world’s largest to scrappy discount carriers canceled flights between South Florida and Haiti on Monday in response to a worsening situation there that has ...
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]
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 ...
Seconds before the American flight agreed to change its path, another PSA jet responded to the same request to shift to Runway 33 as "unable," meaning it was not in a position to make the adjustment.
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.
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]
Federal Aviation Administration reported that American Airlines requested a “ground stop” for all flights which was lifted on Dec. 24, at 8 a.m. ET
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]