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The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) is a labor union which was founded in 1977 and represents over 28,000 flight attendants at American Airlines.In 2003, APFA played a major role [citation needed] in keeping American Airlines solvent and out of bankruptcy by giving back an employee bailout of $340 million in annual salary and benefits, for a total of over $3 billion.
On January 29, 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle), [a] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, collided mid-air with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, about one-half mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
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]
71-year-old Celinda Levno, a long-time American Airlines flight attendant, was killed in a stabbing during a layover in Denver. Levno began her career in 1989 with American West, which merged with ...
In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an air traffic controller requested a last-minute runway change.
An American Airlines flight that originated in Wichita crashed just miles short of its destination at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., after it collided with a military helicopter.
A view of the American Airlines plane in the water after it collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. United States on Jan. 30, 2025.
Madeline Amy Sweeney (December 14, 1965 – September 11, 2001) was an American flight attendant who was killed when American Airlines Flight 11 was deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center by hijackers during the September 11 attacks.