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american eagle
American Eagle Airlines is an airline based in Fort Worth, Texas. It is a regional airline partner of American Airlines (both wholly owned by AMR Corporation), operating over 1,700 flights a day, serving 135 cities across the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. more...
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It is considered to be the world's largest regional airline system.
Like its partner, American Airlines, American Eagle is an affiliate member of the Oneworld alliance. American Eagle also has a code sharing agreement with Northwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Continental Airlines on California routes.
The name was also used between April 1980 and April 1981 by an unrelated short lived start up airline which flew charters while it awaited the granting of routes. The authority to fly several routes was given, but the airline suspended operations and filed bankruptcy before any scheduled operations were flown.
History
American Eagle was conceived in the mid-1980s as a collection of regional carriers with contracts to carry the American Eagle brand name and started operations on 1 November 1984. The first of these was Command Airways (or Command Airlines*) and was based at Dutchess County Airport in Wappinger, New York. The operation there included a maintenance facility. Other carriers included Air Virginia, Simmons Airlines, Wings West Airlines, Metro Airlines and Chaparral Airlines. In the late 1980s, these carriers were purchased by AMR Corporation and combined to form American Eagle Airlines. Executive Airlines, Inc. was not merged into American Eagle, and it still provides American Eagle service by contract, although it is wholly owned by American Eagle.
American Eagle launched its first jet service in May 1998 from Chicago to Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee using Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft. Business Express was acquired in March 1999 and integrated in December 2000. It has 10,054 employees.
American Eagle's flights from Los Angeles International Airport are codeshared by Continental Airlines, and are under the Delta Connection name for Delta Air Lines.
Incidents and accidents
February 19 1988; American Eagle Fairchild Metro III; Cary, North Carolina: The aircraft departed during low ceiling, low visibility, and night conditions. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft impacted a reservoir. Analysis of radar data indicated the aircraft was in a 45 degree descending turn. Both crew members and all 10 passengers were killed .;
June 7 1992; American Eagle (Executive Air) CASA 212-200; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: The aircraft crashed one kilometer short of the runway in bad weather. Both crew and all three passengers were killed .;
October 31, 1994; American Eagle ATR 72; Near Roselawn, Indiana: The aircraft inverted, dived, and crashed from holding pattern at 10,000 feet (3050 m) due to icing. The four crew and 64 passengers were all killed .
Following the crash near Roselawn, longstanding problems with the ATR aircraft operating in some icing conditions were revealed by a Stephen Fredrick (a whistleblower later fired by the airline) in the book \"Unheeded Warning - The Inside Story of American Eagle Flight 4184\". The book was published in July, 1996 by McGraw-Hill. American Eagle has since phased out service using ATR aircraft in cold-weather areas, replacing the aircraft with regional jets. However, ATR-72 aircraft are still used for Caribbean operations from Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, where ice is not an issue.;
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