2001 — Nov 12, American Airlines flight 587 Crash, Belle Harbor, Queens, NY — 265
Narrative Information
— 265 Aircraft Crashes Record Office (Geneva, Switzerland). New York.
— 265 AirSafe.com. Investigation of 587.
— 265 Associated Press. “Some of the Deadliest Plane Crashes on Takeoff.” 8-20-2008.
— 265 History.com. This Day in History, Disaster, November 12, 2001.
— 265 NTSB. AAR. In-Flight Separation of Vertical Stabilizer, American Air…587… 2004.
— 265 Oosthuizen. “The Other New York Crashes: Their Use in a CDIO Program.” 2007, p. 8.
AirSafe.com: “On 12 November 2001, at approximately 9:17 a.m. local time, American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A300-600, crashed into the Belle Harbor area of Queens, New York, several minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport. The plane was on a scheduled flight to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. All nine crew members and 251 passengers on the aircraft were killed, including five infants. Five people on the ground were also killed.” (AirSafe.com, Investigation of the Crash of American Airlines Flight 587, 2007 update)
NTSB: “Executive Summary
“On November 12, 2001, about 0916:15 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus Industrie A300-605R, N14053, crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York. Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight to Las Americas International Airport, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with 2 flight crewmembers, 7 flight attendants, and 251 passengers aboard the airplane. The airplane’s vertical stabilizer and rudder separated in flight and were found in Jamaica Bay, about 1 mile north of the main wreckage site. The airplane’s engines subsequently separated in flight and were found several blocks north and east of the main wreckage site. All 260 people aboard the airplane and 5 people on the ground were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. Flight 587 was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by the first officer’s unnecessary and excessive rudder pedal inputs. Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program.” (NTSB. AAR. In-Flight Separation of Vertical Stabilizer, American Airlines Flight 587, Airbus…Belle Harbor, New York, November 12, 2001. Dec 2, 2004, March 23, 2006 modification, p. xi.)
Sources
Aircraft Crashes Record Office (Geneva, Switzerland). New York. Accessed 3-9-2009 at: http://www.baaa-acro.com/Pays/Etats-Unis/New%20York.htm
AirSafe.com. Investigation of the Crash of American Airlines Flight 587. 11-12-2007 update. Accessed at: http://www.airsafe.com/events/aa587.htm
Associated Press. “Some of the Deadliest Plane Crashes on Takeoff.” 8-20-2008. Accessed at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-20-1787172586_x.htm
History.com. This Day in History, Disaster, November 12, 2001. “Plane Crashes in Rockaway, New York.” Accessed 11/25/2008 at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=11/12&categoryId=disaster
National Transportation Safety Board. Aircraft Accident Report. In-Flight Separation of Vertical Stabilizer, American Airlines Flight 587, Airbus Industrie A300-605R, N14053, Belle Harbor, New York, November 12, 2001 (NTSB No. AAR-04/04). Washington, DC: NTSB, 12-2- 2004; mod. 3-23-2006, 212 pages. At: http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2004/AAR0404.pdf
Oosthuizen, Patrick H. “The Other New York Crashes: Their Use in a CDIO Program.” Proceedings of the 3rd International CDIO Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA. June 11-14, 2007, 14 pages. Accessed at: http://www.cdio.org/meetings/jun07mit/papers/t4a4oosthuizen.pdf