Friday evening, another American Airlines plane will take off from Wichita to Washington, D.C. But it won’t be flight No. 5342. That’s because American Airlines has retired that number after the ...
The number on the American Airlines flight from Washington to the nation’s capital is being retired by the airline, with the direct Wichita-to-DC flight now numbered 5677.
The flights from The Sunflower State to the nation’s capital had been halted after American Airlines Flight 5342 had a midair collision with a helicopter on its approach to Reagan National Airport ...