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 ...

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.

An aerial view shows the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191 near O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. Firefighters work to extinguish flames at the crash site of American ...

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 deadliest plane crash in U.S. history was in May 1979, when American Airlines Flight 191 lost an engine during takeoff at Chicago O’Hare International Airport and crashed moments later ...

Thirty-two years of waiting to memorialize the victims of American Airlines Flight 191 is long enough ... whose parents were killed in a crash on this day in 1979. Finally, a permanent memorial ...

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 ...