American Airlines Flight 587

The Airbus A300 climbed away from New York bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic with 260 people on board. It lost its vertical stabiliser, spiralled out of control and came down in the Queens neighbourhood of Belle Harbor at approximately 9:17 a.m. The crash came two months after the 11 September attacks on the city.

Date

2001-11-12

Deaths (Wikipedia list)

265

What the pin marks

The crash site in Belle Harbor, Queens, as the cited page positions it.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, new york, queens, airbus a300, vertical stabiliser

Coordinates: 40.57711, -73.85036

Part of Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

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