Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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American Airlines flight 587 was an Airbus A300. The air crash investigation uncovered that the plane found itself in trouble minutes after take-off, a loud noise from the rear is followed by parts of the plane breaking off. This is the story of American Airlines flight 587.





ATTRIBUTIONS:
Take-off wing view clip FlyAAJets
AA jet taxi - Eric Jensen
A300 CABIN VIDEO - MCO747
JAL inflight - Lasjim
JAL taxi - joe avery
AA take off scene - X2000R
AA a300 image in intro - Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wake Turbulance example - DLR, CC-BY 3.0, CC BY 3.0 DE creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons
Flight Voice recorder - Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A300 landing - PDX Aviation
Airbus building - N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons