America’s deadliest airplane crash ... cleared a silver American Airlines DC-10 for takeoff to chase the sun’s path. With 258 passengers and a crew of 13, Flight 191 was bound for Los ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Decades after American Airlines Flight 191 crashed moments after taking off ... when it lost one of its engines on May 25, 1979, killing 273 people, including all 271 people onboard ...

The Memorial Day weekend of 1979 began beautifully ... At O’Hare International Airport, American Airlines Flight 191 was cleared for takeoff, beginning its afternoon flight to Los Angeles.

The worst aviation accident ever in the United States was American Airlines Flight 191, which in May 1979 lost an engine during takeoff at Chicago O’Hare International Airport and crashed ...

It involved a flight that had just taken off from Chicago's O'Hare Airport in 1979 ... near the crash site in Des Plaines. All 271 people on board American Airlines Flight 191 and two people ...