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American Airlines Flight 11
9/11 hijacked passenger flight, hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collided in mid-air over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. The collision occurred at 8:47 p.m. at an altitude of about 300 feet (100 m) and about one-half mile short of the threshold of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the three crew of the helicopter. It was the first major US commercial passenger flight crash since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest US air disaster since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. This was also the third hull loss and first fatal accident involving the CRJ700 series.
American Airlines Flight 77
2001 hijacking of an airliner and subsequent deliberate crash into The Pentagon in Virginia, USA
American Airlines Flight 191
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport. On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from then-existing runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control. The aircraft crashed about 4,600 feet (1,400 m) from the end of runway 32R. All 271 occupants on board were killed on impact, along with two people on the ground. With a total of 273 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.
American Airlines Flight 587
November 2001 aviation accident in New York, US
American Airlines Flight 1420
June 1999 runway overrun and crash in Arkansas, US
American Airlines Flight 965
December 20, 1995 crash of a U.S. airliner in Colombia
American Airlines Flight 96
aviation accident
American Eagle Flight 4184
aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 331
2009 aviation accident in Jamaica
Richard Reid
British terrorist
American Airlines Flight 1
1962 aviation accident
2001 failed shoe bomb attempt
failed bombing attempt that occurred on December 22, 2001
American Airlines Flight 383
aviation accident in 2016
American Airlines Flight 1502
crew training flight resulting in a crash into sea killing all 6 aboard
American Airlines Flight 514
1959 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 625
1976 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 383
1965 aviation accident in the United States
American Airlines Flight 1572
aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 320
1959 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 157
1949 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 444
attempted bombing
American Airlines Flight 102
1993 aviation accident
American Airlines accidents and incidents
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