The deadliest incident in recent memory was American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 that crashed in November 2001 shortly after it took off from New York's John F. Kennedy International ...

Meanwhile, US officials said indications were that yesterday's crash, in which an American Airlines' A300 went down in the New York borough of Queen's shortly after taking off from the city's John ...

The Airbus A300 hit wake turbulence from a larger aircraft that took off ahead of it. The disaster was two months after the 9/11 attacks, which involved two American Airlines jets: Flight 11 ...