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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 ...

Thirty-two years after the crash of Delta Flight 191, the memories come rushing back to its youngest survivor. He remembers the sound: “A horrific God-ending-like hell sound. The sound was just so ...

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 ...