On the 12th of November 2001, an American Airlines Airbus A300 bound for the Dominican Republic plunged from the sky shortly after takeoff from JFK International Airport, tearing a fiery swathe through a residential neighborhood and claiming the lives of 265 people. With New York still darkened by the looming shadow of 9/11, the crash sparked fears that the terrorists had struck again. But when the evidence began to point toward a different explanation, America seemingly lost interest — leaving one of the country’s worst air disasters to disappear from the nation’s collective consciousness.
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