Nearly 46 years ago, this disaster claimed the lives of 273 people, with 258 being passengers, 13 crew members, and 2 individuals on the ground.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

An Alexandria Fire Department crew departs the Metropolitan Police Department Harbor Patrol facility Thursday on its way to the site of ... on the American Airlines Flight 191 crash the day ...

as well as two individuals at the site of the crash," said Encyclopedia Britannica. Not counting the Sept. 11 attacks, this makes Flight 191 the deadliest airline accident in U.S. history.