American Airlines Flight 1420 Media Links and Downloads

AA Flight 1420 Links to 1420 News, Articles, Resources and Downloads Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King Please Note: Most links on this page open in a new window. If you have a pop-out stopper on your browser, please disable it or use keystrokes allowing new pages to appear.
Doppler weather radar at Little Rock Airport, June 1, 1999		*World on the Web* in its Jan. 22, 2000 ( Volume 15 Number 3) issue lists the following as one of the week's 'Quotables:'
		"Sort of like a bowling alley approach." --American Airlines dispatcher telling the crew of AA flight 1420 to expedite its landing at the Little Rock, Ark., airport in hopes of beating powerful thunderstorms approaching to the left and to the right of the runway. The MD-80 skidded off a runway with 145 people aboard on June 1, 1999. It hit a bank of runway lights, then crashed into a steel walkway near the Arkansas River. The plane broke apart and burst into flames, killing the pilot and 10 others.

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	CNN Online, June 5, 1999 Correspondent Susan Candiottiand The Associated Press
	South Coast Today, Massachusetts, June 6, 1999 James Jefferson, Associated Press writer

	1420 Timeline of June 1-2, 1999 Begins at 10:18 a.m. June 1, 1999; includes cockpit transcript, discoveries and NTSB hearing testimonies. Prepared by Sharyn Aust Smith of law firm Hill, Gilstrap, Perkins and Warner

	The Trial of American Airlines Flight 1420 Hosted by Hill Gilstrap Law Firm , a great spurce of information, news , video, photographs

	National Air Disaster Alliance Foundation Committed to raising the standard of safety, security and survivability for aviation passengers and to support survivors and victims' families.
	National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Aviation link to Federal NTSB information and reports
	Air Crash Support Network AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services
	Airline Crash Research Site Research exchange forum
	AirWise News Latest airline news
	Airline Safety Net Dedicated to factual and responsible information related to airline safety
	Federal Family Assistance Plan for Aviation Disasters .pdf doc, Signed by President Clinton September 6, 1996
	Family Assistance Foundation Providing a positive environment where airlines and other organizations can share resources, information, experience, and insight about family assistance and emergency management.

	A Meteorological Analysis of Flight 1420 .pdf doc by Erik Proseus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	NTSB Hearing and Investigations Index
	Formal Letter from Captain Ralph W. Omholt to Ms. Jane Garvey, Administrator, FAA National Headquarters

	The Arkansas Democrat Gazette 1420 Special Section(may need to complete free registration to access) NOTE: At last access (12/01/12) links were not appearing on this page. Searching "Flight 1420" from the newspaper's search box with returning all or most stories relative to the tragedy.

	NPR Audio Clip June 2, 1999 Arkansas Plane Crash, with survivor Tad Hardin
	NPR Audio Clip June 2, 1999 Arkansas Plane Crash update, June 2, 1999
	NPR Audio Clip June 6, 1999 Voices in the News, with survivor David Carlton, NTSB spokesperson, more
	NPR Audio Clip Nov. 2, 1999 National Transportation Safety Board, All Things Considered

	Seating Cart (Adobe Acrobat 32k)
	Overhead View w/ Crash Detail (Adobe Acrobat 344k)
	Full Color Crash Detail (Adobe Acrobat 410k)
	Weather Radar Images of Airport (Adobe Acrobat 237k)

	Flight 1420 in Arkansas History
	CNN Photo Gallery

	"The Love Letter" by Dr. Bruce Tippit, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jonesboro, Arkansas

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I am still in the process of organizing, checking and updating the databases, so please check back often and notify me of any errors. Please check the last update notation next to the download button to see if your file has been updated, as there are still items to be added to each file.

1420news.zip	4.66 mb, last updated 6/18/04 - Contains more than 160 general news articles, diagrams and reports organized by date.		Coming Soon! - Contains all the photographs, diagrams and graphics found in other files in a simpler browsing format.
	Coming Soon! - Contains news articles, documents relating to legal issues stemming from the crash. Includes some court items.	1420Memorial.zip	1.42 mb, last updated 6/22/04- Contains 39 news articles, items relating to the One-, Two- and Five-Year Memorials organized by date.
	Coming Soon! - Contains news articles, documents relating to the investigation of the crash.		Coming Soon! - Contains news articles, references and NTSB items.
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