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Pilot's chilling final word before American Airlines Flight 191 crashed killing 273

American Airlines Flight 191 took off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979, bound for Los Angeles.
The Baltimore Sun

Remembering Flight 191

With its left engine missing, American Airlines Flight 191 goes into a severe roll, then crashes in a burst of flames less than a mile away from the runway in 1979. These photos were taken by Michael ...
Mentour Pilot on MSN

Watch Delta Flight 191 burst through a wall of rain at 216 knots - then cross a highway

Delta Flight 191 was approaching Dallas with 163 people aboard when it encountered a devastating microburst. The crew fought ...
Chicago Tribune

The 1979 crash of Flight 191 remembered in an editorial from 2004

America’s deadliest airplane crash — the 9/11 attacks are in a separate terrorism category — occurred 40 years ago this Memorial Day weekend. A quarter-century later, in 2004, a Tribune editorial ...
Chicago Tribune

The crash of Flight 191

Friday, May 25, 1979. The long Memorial Day weekend beckoned. The sky was luminous, the spring air blessedly warm. O’Hare International Airport teemed with travelers. At 3:02 p.m., air traffic ...