As of March 2019 , the airline has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses due to all causes since the crash of an American Airways Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931 . Of these most were propeller driven aircraft , including three Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop aircraft ( of which one , the crash in 1959 of Flight 320 , resulted in fatalities ) . Seventeen jet aircraft have been written off due to crashes – including Flight 587 in 2001 , Flight 965 in 1995 , Flight 191 in 1979 , Flight 1 in 1962
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