Mourners came together Monday to remember the 265 lives lost when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into a Queens neighborhood in 2001.
The New York-to-Dominican Republic flight had barely taken off from JFK Airport when one of its tail fins snapped, sending the Airbus A300 plummeting into the Rockaway Park section of Queens.
All 260 passengers and crew died, along with five people on the ground.
Father Eric Cruz of St. John Chrysostom Catholic Parish gave the invocation during the ceremony at Flight 587 Memorial Park on Beach 116th Street.
A brief moment of silence that followed was interrupted by a plane passing overhead as it took off from JFK.
Victims’ relatives Rafael Frias, Karen Taverez and Freddy Rodriguez read aloud the names of the dead.
“Thank you everyone for being here to remember those we lost, those we love, and those we still love in our hearts,” Mayor de Blasio told the roughly 150 attendees.
The mayor sparked outrage in 2014 for showing up late to the annual memorial.