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While no one knows for sure what caused the crash of American Airlines flight 587, there is growing consensus that the plane was felled by a tragic accident rather than an act of terrorism.
The investigation continued Tuesday into the crash of American Airlines flight 587, which killed 246 passengers and nine crew members. Workers at the scene recovered the plane's flight data recorder, one of the two "black boxes" used to analyze the last moments aboard doomed flights. The cockpit voice recorder...
Donald Carty, chairman of the already beleaguered American Airlines, called Monday "an incredibly sad day." He said the airline knew no more than anyone else at the moment. "We have absolutely no indication of what caused the accident."
The Airbus is built by a consortium of European manufacturers and seats over 300 people in most of its configurations. According to a spokesman for American Airlines, the plane entered service in July of 1988. It was last checked earlier this month, although its last major overhaul was back in...
Another incident which worried experts took place in April 1999 and involved the abrupt emergency landing of a Brussels-bound Continental Airlines DC-10 flight which had just taken off from Newark International Airport. The right CF6 engine was seriously damaged when it suffered an uncontained failure. Last September, a...