Seconds after takeoff, a deadly chain reaction began. Flight 191’s horrifying fall marked the deadliest aviation accident in ...

On May 27, 1979, American Arlines Flight 191 crashed one-half mile from the runway’s end. Loaded with 80,000 pounds of kerosene fuel for a flight to Los Angeles, it exploded furiously, all 271 ...

The 258 passengers who boarded American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979, were traveling for a variety of reasons. Some, who attended work meetings in Chicago ...

American Airlines Flight 191 leaves the terminal at O’Hare International Airport and rolls out to a runway on May 25, 1979. Minutes later, it crashed. All 271 aboard the DC-10 and two people on ...

American Airlines Flight 191 leaves the terminal at O’Hare International Airport and rolls out to a runway on May 25, 1979. Minutes later, it crashed. All 271 aboard the DC-10 and two people on ...

On May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 took off for what was to be a flight to Los Angeles International Airport. During takeoff, the left engine and pylon assembly and about 3 feet of the ...

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the day 271 doomed passengers and crew boarded an American Airlines plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. They never set foot on the ground in Los Angeles as ...

American Airlines Flight 191 Crashes . December 1, 2020, 9:12 am . Photo: Frank Hanes/Chicago Tribune May 25, 1979. A witness on the ground at O’Hare captured a nightmarish photo of the DC-10 ...

American Airlines Flight 191 leaves the terminal at O’Hare International Airport and rolls out to a runway on May 25, 1979. Minutes later, it crashed. All 271 aboard the DC-10 and two people on ...

Kim Jockl, daughter of American Airlines Flight 191 passengers Corrinne and Bill Borchers, makes a rubbing of her parents’ bricks at the 40th anniversary remembrance ceremony in Des Plaines.