The special audit is expected to take about three months. On Tuesday, the NTSB conducted a hearing to investigate American Flight 1400 on Sept. 28, 2007, when an MD-82 engine caught on fire.

An American Airlines MD-82 inflight engine fire in September 2007 was "probably due to an unapproved and improper procedure used by mechanics to manually start one of the engines," the US National ...

September 28th, 2007 Seconds after takeoff from St Louis, Missouri, the engine of an American Airlines MD-82 erupts into flames. Alarm bells ring loudly in the cockpit, as the pilots grapple with ...

Venezuelan authorities have disclosed that smoke emitted from the fuselage of a Laser Airlines Boeing MD-82 prompted an evacuation at the gate in Caracas. The twinjet had been preparing for ...

A One-Two-GO Airlines MD-82 aircraft on Sunday evening skidded on the runway at Phuket International Airport in pelting rain and burst into flames before coming to rest against some trees. Eighty ...

The US National Transportation Safety Board determined that the loss of a Northwest Airlines MD-82 at Detroit, almost exactly 21 years before the Spanair crash, was due to the crew's failure to ...

American plans to add seats to its Boeing 737s and McDonnell Douglas MD-80s, which account for about two-thirds of the airline's entire fleet of jetliners. The move was disclosed in a regulatory ...

Business American Airlines faulted in MD-82 engine fire Published: Apr. 07, 2009, 3:34 p.m. By Kathryn Kroll, The Plain Dealer Associated Press file ...