In October 1955, Pan American favored the Douglas, ordering 25 DC-8s while ordering 20 Boeing 707s. The same year, United ...

On Jan. 29, an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided as the plane prepared to land at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Both plunged into the Potomac ...

According to an American Airlines spokesperson ... the plane departed Wichita at 5:10 p.m. and landed in D.C. at 8:54 p.m. According to a court affidavit obtained by CBS News and ABC News ...