# Talk:American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)

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)

This review is transcluded from Talk:American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: ---Dough4872 15:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Comments:

The lead of the article appears a little short. Is there any more information that can be added?
Remove colon after "including".
"no-one" should not be hyphenated.
The sentence "300-400 policemen and fire fighters, including 125 detectives attending a narcotics seminar at the Police Academy, as well as Coast Guard helicopters were mobilized to the crash site within half an hour of the crash for rescue operations, only to find that there were no survivors." should not begin with a numeral.
International Hotel needs to be disambuguated or unlinked.
Throughout the article, there are many short paragraphs. Can these be combined to form longer paragraphs?
Are there any pictures related to the accident that can be added to the article?
I am placing the article on hold. ---Dough4872 15:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Changes
1. The lead of the article appears a little short. Is there any more information that can be added?

Added statistics (deadliest crash at the time on US soil; sixth crash of 707; deadliest crash of 707 at the time)
2. Remove colon after "including".

Removed.
3. "no-one" should not be hyphenated.

Fixed.
4. The sentence "300-400 policemen and fire fighters, including 125 detectives attending a narcotics seminar at the Police Academy, as well as Coast Guard helicopters were mobilized to the crash site within half an hour of the crash for rescue operations, only to find that there were no survivors." should not begin with a numeral.

Changed to "Upwards of 300 policemen and fire fighters..."
5. International Hotel needs to be disambuguated or unlinked.

Unlinked.
6. Throughout the article, there are many short paragraphs. Can these be combined to form longer paragraphs?

Removed the "In popular culture" section, that was almost a trivia section with a 1-sentence paragraph. Combined two sets of short paragraphs in section "Investigation"; remaining 2-sentence paragraph really can't be combined with any of the existing paragraphs.
7. Are there any pictures related to the accident that can be added to the article?

Commons and Flickr have no images of any American Airlines Boeing 707. The Accident report does not have any useful images or diagrams. So -- no.
Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 19:54, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I will pass the article. ---Dough4872 01:24, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Please stop adding trivia. Especially unreferenced trivia. Thanks. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 01:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Maybe you also mention Louise Sarah Eastman (born: Lindner) as one of the victims? She's the mother of Linda McCartney. The New York Times: "2 Sets of Stepchildren at War Over an Estate" (Nov. 27, 2007) (search for The American Airlines jet crashed in Jamaica Bay, killing her) --Zopp (talk) 16:37, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

The consensus is not to name the dead or survivors unless they have a wikipedia article. Here are just some of the many discussions-
Here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255#Should_Cecelia_Cichan_be_mentioned_by_name?
Here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1943_Gibraltar_B-24_crash#Question
Here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Galaxy_Airlines_Flight_203
Here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aviation/Aviation_accident_task_force#Here_we_go_again-_Munich_air_disaster
Here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_705 Go to section Names of victims and survivors.
Plus see ANI discussions here[1] and here[2]. There is one exception- the cockpit crew of the aircraft involved....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:51, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

I found the original accident report here: https://www.baaa-acro.com/sites/default/files/import/uploads/2017/11/N7506A.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.48.51.22 (talk) 22:28, 22 November 2021 (UTC) 

The report is already used as a reference in several places via the National Transportation Library, though the link was broken. I've updated it to https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33668, which contains the same PDF. Having a backup source for the report is good, though. clpo13(talk) 22:48, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

I would like you to replace the infobox image caption as an aircraft similar to the accident aircraft that image is NOT N7506A. It is N7523A taken by Jon Proctor at this link: [3]. Thanks! UselessIdiotNamedBlue (talk) 06:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 07:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

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