Talk:American Airlines Flight 1

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[edit] Flight numbers taken out of service

This is the fourteenth straight accident report I've read that states that aircraft flight numbers are normally retired after fatal accidents, but "not for this flight". I have a sneaking suspicion that this was nowhere near as common back in the 1950s and 1960s as it is now. Of course, back then there were a LOT!! more accidents than there are now, so they would have run out of numbers had they retired them.

In the US alone in 1962 there were 15 major (hull loss) airliner accidents, plus another 11 to US airlines outside of the United States! Nowadays it's a bad year if there are two. --Charlene.fic 23:07, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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