Flight 587 Memorial Park — Attraction in New York

American Airlines Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City to Las Américas International Airport, Santo Domingo. On November 12, 2001, the Airbus A300B4-605R flying the route crashed into the neighborhood of Belle Harbor on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, New York City, shortly after takeoff. All 260 people aboard the plane (251 passengers and 9 crew members) were killed, as well as five people on the ground. It is the second-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history, behind the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979, and the second-deadliest aviation incident involving an Airbus A300, after Iran Air Flight 655.

The location of the accident, and the fact that it took place two months and one day after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in nearby Manhattan, initially spawned fears of another terrorist attack, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence from a preceding Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 that took off minutes before it. According to the NTSB, the aggressive use of the rudder controls by the first officer stressed the vertical stabilizer until it separated from the aircraft. The airliner's two engines also separated from the aircraft before impact due to the...

Flight 587 Memorial Park in Rockaway Park, New York, serves as a poignant reminder of the tragic aviation accident that occurred on November 12, 2001. The park features a memorial wall and public plaza dedicated to the 265 lives lost when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. The second-deadliest aviation disaster in U.S. history, the crash deeply affected the local community and the Dominican diaspora, as many passengers were of Dominican descent. The memorial provides a solemn space for reflection and remembrance, honoring those who perished in...

First the cement tiles need a really good cleaning second the tiles on the floor look like people have been throwing food liquid and possibly peeing on the walls in addition to that there are several bums hanging around on the benches of the circle which apparently no police or nobody else does anything about I saw many patrol cars go by that could see them sitting on the benches and did absolutely nothing about it the trees are very dry and falling apart it doesn't look like anybody is watering them it's supposed to be a memorial of dead people what what is turning out to be a disgrace Sanibel Harbour residence and...