>From Wikipedia. American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_passenger_flight> from O'Hare International Airport <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hare_International_Airport> in Chicago <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago> to Los Angeles International Airport <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport> . On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10> operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control. The aircraft crashed about 4,600 feet (1,400 m) from the end of runway 32R. All 271 occupants on board were killed on impact, along with two people on the ground. With a total of 273 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest aviation accident[a] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#cite_note-2> to have occurred in the United States.[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#cite_note-wihiserg-3> [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#cite_note-upiprp-4> [4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#cite_note-toncijc-5> Michael xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx R. Michael Baiada cell - (303) 521-6047 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: Karl Swartz via Mifnet <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2026 00:34 To: Mifnet <[email protected]> Cc: Jack Keady <[email protected]>; Karl Swartz <[email protected]> Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 75123] Re: MD11 crash I must not be reading you right. AA 191 was a regular, scheduled flight, not a test flight of any kind, and certainly wasn’t trying to verify an unknown failure mode. -- Karl
On Jan 15, 2026, at 11:37 AM, Jack Keady via Mifnet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: if keady reads this right, the AA ORD MD-11 crash was caused as a result of trying to verify the flyable condition of the very bearing that allegedly caused the UPS crash
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