"Just the horror that the parents are going through — that blows me away," said Joanne Kispert, whose father died in the 2001 ...

Sixty-four people died after an American Airlines jet collided with a helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort ...

It has been even longer since a major American Airlines crash. In November 2001, American Flight 587 crashed after takeoff from JFK Airport in New York City, killing all 260 people on board.

And the D.C. tragedy was the worst loss of life in U.S. commercial air travel since November 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into Belle Harbor, Queens, after taking off from JFK ...

Just two months after 9/11, Flight 587 plunged from the sky on November 12, 2001, killing everyone on board as well as five ...

Five years later, when American Airlines Flight 587 fell out of the sky, President George W. Bush predicted that the "resilient and strong and courageous people” of New York would get through ...

The second-worst accident in the United States came on Nov. 12, 2001, when 265 people were killed during a crash involving American Airlines flight 587, according to the Aviation Safety Network.