Faces of the victims of Flight 191. According to a National Transportation Safety Board accident report, all 258 passengers and 13 crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 191 died when the DC-10 plane crashed on May 25, 1979. Two men on the ground were also killed.
Those are the statistics, but we wanted to learn more about the people whose lives were lost that day. So we asked family members and friends to share their recollections. What follows below are their answers. For those whose families we haven’t yet heard from, we combed the Chicago Tribune and newspapers.com archives for details.
A memorial to these victims was dedicated in 2011 at Lake Park in Des Plaines, less than 2 miles east of the crash site.
Have a story to add to this memorial? Please email krumore@chicagotribune.com.
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