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*Requested by VTMCompany in memory of cousin Elaine Howell.* The Air Crash Investigation series is back and better than ever! All videos will now be produced in HD 720p quality. American Airlines Flight 191, from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off on May 25, 1979 at approximately 15:04 CDT. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 had 258 passengers and 13 crew on board. There were no survivors. Two persons on the ground were also killed. In terms of total fatalities it remains the deadliest single airliner accident on US soil. At 14:50 CDT, N110AA was cleared to taxi to runway 32R (Right) and at 15:02, the flight was cleared for takeoff and began its roll down the runway. Takeoff was normal until air traffic controller Ed Rucker witnessed the number one engine (left wing) separate from the aircraft. The engine flipped over the wing and fell onto the runway. The aircraft continued in a normal climb momentarily to around 350 feet AGL, as leaking fuel and hydraulic fluid spewed a vapor trail. The pilots aimed to reduce speed from 165 knots (306 km/h) to the recommended engine-out climb speed of 153 knots (283 km/h), but the engine separation had severed the hydraulic lines that controlled the aircraft’s leading-edge wing slats (retractable devices that decrease a wing’s stall speed during takeoff and landing). Further, the missing engine had ripped 3 feet of the leading edge of the wing with it, including …