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You have 31 seconds. That's exactly how long this plane was in the air before 273 people died.May 25th, 1979. Memorial Day weekend. Chicago O'Hare Airport. Flight 191 is packed with 258 passengers heading to Los Angeles.
The DC-10 begins its takeoff roll. Everything looks normal.
Then — at 400 feet in the air — the left engine falls off the wing.
Not a malfunction. Not a fire. The entire engine just... separates.
The plane rolls hard to the left. The pilots have no idea why — the engine failure cut the hydraulic lines, so their instruments showed nothing wrong.
31 seconds after takeoff, the aircraft slams into an abandoned airfield at full speed.
A fireball erupts so hot that firefighters couldn't get close for nearly an hour.
273 people dead. Zero survivors.
Investigation revealed the real villain: American Airlines was cutting corners during maintenance — using a forklift instead of proper equipment to remove engines — causing invisible cracks in the mounting structure.
It remains the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in US history to this day.
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