Pets and Air Travel – BusinessWeek
The dangers summer weather poses for pets was highlighted on Aug. 3 when seven puppies died after being unloaded from an American Airlines flight from Tulsa to Chicago. Hot weather in Oklahoma is suspected as a factor in the animals’ deaths. The airline is awaiting necropsy results, American spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan said Monday in [...]
American Airlines loses Israeli leader’s luggage, guns – Yahoo! News
As if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed a reason never to fly commercial: American Airlines lost a bag belonging to a member of Netanyahu’s security detail Tuesday during his trip to the White House. And this wasn’t just any bag: It contained four Glock 9mm pistols. And at least one of them is still [...]
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #2 @ 1:25 (a.m.) U.S. Central Time – Dec 23, 2009
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #2 @ 1:25 (a.m.) U.S. Central Time PRNewswire FORT WORTH, Texas FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ — On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, overran the runway on landing at Kingston, Jamaica's Norman Manley International Airport. The flight originated out of [...]
Plane Overshoots Runway in Jamaica – NYTimes.com
An American Airlines flight carrying more than 150 people skidded off a rain-slicked runway as it landed in Jamaica Tuesday night, hitting a fence and plowing into a sandy embankment before it came to rest a few feet from the Caribbean Sea. Heavy rain fell as passengers were evacuated from the plane. No one was [...]
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #1 @ 11:58 (p.m.) U.S. Central Time – Dec 23, 2009
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #1 @ 11:58 (p.m.) U.S. Central Time PRNewswire FORT WORTH, Texas FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ — On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, overran the runway on landing at Kingston, Jamaica's Norman Manley International Airport. The flight originated out of [...]
Kingston Jamaica Weather Information – AA Flight 331
From NOAA Website: Current Weather Conditions: Kingston / Norman Manley, Jamaica (MKJP) 17-56N 076-47W 14M Conditions at 2009.12.23 0500 UTC Wind from the N (350 degrees) at 2 MPH (2 KT) Sky conditions mostly cloudy Weather Heavy rain Temperature 68 F (20 C) Dew Point 64 F (18 C) Relative Humidity 88% Pressure (altimeter) 29.91 [...]
