Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 40 years ago when one of the deadliest aviation accidents in U.S. history — and the worst ever in Texas — occurred at DFW ...

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 ...

Delta Flight 191 was approaching Dallas with 163 people aboard when it encountered a devastating microburst. The crew fought to recover, but the L-1011 was still descending at around 600 feet per ...

Friday, May 25, 1979. The long Memorial Day weekend beckoned. The sky was luminous, the spring air blessedly warm. O’Hare International Airport teemed with travelers. At 3:02 p.m., air traffic ...

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 ...

Thirty-two years of waiting to memorialize the victims of American Airlines Flight 191 is long enough, says Melody Smith of Arlington Heights, whose parents were killed in a crash on this day in 1979.