While it will take weeks, even months, for investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to determine exactly why American Airlines 587 plunged ... It’s a common engine, but ...

Staff writer Ben White contributed to this report. FBI and French investigators examine the remains of an engine from American Airlines Flight 587 in a Queens back yard.

BELLE HARBOR, Queens (WABC) -- The crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, Queens, stunned and terrified a region still reeling from the horror of 9/11 two months earlier.

Wednesday's crash spun Belkis Lora back to when Flight 587 crashed shortly after taking off from Kennedy Airport. Her 44-year-old brother, Jose Lora, was among the passengers aboard the ...

That's when we all looked out our window and saw the engine and the wing on fire, and we could smell the smoke inside." United Airlines in a statement to Newsweek: "During takeoff, United flight ...