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 ...

American Airlines Flight 191 was set to fly from Chicago to Los Angeles, but the routine journey ended in a tragic disaster ...

To take flight as a passenger in a large airplane is disorienting. Let’s be honest, it is unnatural for us wingless humans to soar above the earth. Yet U.S. commercial air travel is so common and ...

American Airlines Flight 191 crashed after takeoff from O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979, killing 273 people. The DC-10, carrying 13 crew members and 258 passengers, crashed 31 seconds ...

Matt MacRunnel was recently sworn in as vice commander of The Webster City American Legion Post 191 by Commander Dave Gordon.

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--This week marks the 40th anniversary of the day 271 doomed passengers and crew boarded an American Airlines plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. They never set foot on the ground in Los ...