LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Over 46 years before UPS flight 2976 crashed just south of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing 14 people, a DC-10 passenger jet suffered a similar left engine loss.

American Airlines Flight 191 was a DC-10 passenger jet carrying 271 people. On May 25, 1979, it was departing from Chicago O'Hare Airport and heading for Los Angeles. During takeoff, the plane lost its left engine.

The plane remained airborne for about a minute, but the loss of the left engine triggered additional mechanical failures, causing it to crash into a field near a trailer park in Des Plaines, Illinois. Two people on the ground were also killed, bringing the death toll to 273. It remains the deadliest U.S. plane crash outside of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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