All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground. Until theSeptember 11 attacks, it was the deadliest air disaster in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest aviation accident to occur on U.S. soil,[note 1] as well as the second deadliest involving a DC-10, after Turkish Airlines Flight 981. It was also the third worst aviation disaster in history at the time, and is currently the tenth worst.
Enflight is a personalized flight planning tool for general aviation that reduces information overload, speeding you to well-informed decisions. Enflight analyzes relevant preflight information using your own personal minimums, to save time and eliminate oversights for a safer and more enjoyable flight.
Fastest and easiest complete, legal FAA Briefing!
Weather briefing and Notams color coded based on your personal minimums
Print, any area of FAA Sectional, WAC, TAC, Enroute, Flyways charts and approach plates at no additional cost.
Print, download as PDF or EMAIL, almost any map, forecast, or flight plan.
Easy flight planning wizard
Download your flightplan directly to your handheld GPS
Web service: No software download or installation required
Smartphone compatible for mobile access
Weather Graphics (radar loops, current and forecast charts)
Google Earth. Flight Visualization
Airport Directory (AF/D) and Instrument Procedures
File International or Domestic Flight Plans, including incoming flight plans from the Caribbean.
File and close flight plans directly from your smartphone.
Enflight's mission is to make flying safer, easier, and more enjoyable for pilots. Enflight specializes in assisting the pilot before the flight starts and after it lands.
A safe flight begins well before the aircraft taxis out onto the runway. Enflight's systems give all pilots an up-to-date, easy-to-use source of critical flight information via the World Wide Web.