American Airlines

Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas), or American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida).

Incidents and Accidents

• American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashed on approach to LaGuardia on February 3, 1959 due to pilot error.
• American Airlines Flight 1, a Boeing 707, crashed shortly after takeoff from Idewild (now JFK) airport on March 1, 1962 due to a maintenance error causing rudder failure.
• American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed on approach to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976.
• American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed at O'Hare Airport on May 25, 1979.
• American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashed on approach to Cali, Colombia, on December 20, 1995.
• American Airlines Flight 1420, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed on landing to Little Rock, AR on June 1, 1999.
• Two American Airlines aircraft were hijacked and crashed during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: Flight 77 (a Boeing 757) and Flight 11 (a Boeing 767).
• American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 crashed in New York City on November 12, 2001.
• American almost lost Flight 63 to "shoe bomber" Richard Reid on December 22 of the same year, but the plot was foiled. The flight was en route from Paris Charles De Gaulle to Miami, and was diverted to Boston's Logan Airport.