Air Crash Investigations: The Crash of American Airlines Flight 587

On November 12, 2001, American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A300-605R, took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Flight 587 was a scheduled passenger flight to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with a crew of 9 and 251 passengers aboard the airplane. Shortly after take-off the airplane lost its tail, the engines subsequently separated in flight and the airplane crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York. All 260 people aboard the airplane and 5 people on the ground were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire.

• | Author: Hans Griffioen
• | Publisher: Lulu Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 03, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1409286029
• | ISBN-13: 9781409286028