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.
Languages: English. The collision between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk Army helicopter over the Potomac River was the first fatal commercial crash in the United States since ...
A riverkeeper who routinely patrols the Potomac River reportedly found multiple items belonging to the American Airlines plane after it crashed Wednesday night, including pages from a flight ...
Sam Lilley, the first officer of the fatal American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night outside Washington, D.C., was a coastal Georgia native and Georgia ...
It has been even longer since a major crash involving American Airlines, the nation’s largest carrier. In November 2001, American Flight 587 crashed after takeoff from JFK Airport in New ...