10 Worst aircraft accidents and incidents

American Airlines Flight 191
1979
The deadliest airline accident on US soil occurred in a DC-10, a model that has earned itself a very bad safety reputation, despite being generally a safe plane. The last maintenance on this particular aircraft, eight weeks before the disaster, had damaged the pylons attaching one of the engines to the plane. As the airplane began its takeoff from O’Hare, that engine broke off from the aircraft and fell back onto the runway, taking a large section of the left wing with it, cutting electrical systems, and spilling hydraulic fluid, which controlled some mobile parts of the wing.