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 decision was made two days after the tragic collision of American Airlines passenger plane with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.
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 ...