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 and nearly five months of waiting ends Saturday as a permanent memorial remembering the 273 victims of American Airlines Flight 191 plane crash is unveiled in Des Plaines. More than 1 ...

On the sunny Friday afternoon of May 25, 1979, the 258 passengers and 13 crew members beginning their Memorial Day weekend aboard American Airlines Flight 191 could not have imagined that they had ...

Have you ever been surprised to learn that something terrifying and heartbreaking once happened in your own hometown, Chicago? I grew up near O’Hare International Airport in Des Plaines — “French for ...

Charleston Chew candy bars make me cry. And, strange as it may sound, the memorial for the victims of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 is the place where I’ll finally be able to help my kids ...

Even now, when Ed McAvoy finds himself on the stretch of Higgins Road just outside O`Hare International Airport, he remembers that day. ”Every time I drive past, the whole damn thing is right there,” ...

Delta Air Lines is not liable for the crash of Flight 191 at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in 1985, a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale decided on Tuesday. The jury deliberated for nearly two ...