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title: "Honoring and remembering the victims of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Rockaway Queens, New York, on November 12, 2001, and extending the sincerest condolences of the citizens of the United States to the families and friends of those individuals."
identifier: "119-HRES-870"
congress: 119
bill_number: 870
bill_type: "HRES"
version_code: "ih"
version_type: "Introduced in House"
bill_url: "https://chamberzero.com/congresses/119/bills/hres/870"
source: "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/870"
site: "Chamber Zero"
site_url: "https://chamberzero.com"
rendered_at: "2026-06-04T04:49:38.081Z"
---
Whereas the people of New York and communities throughout the United States experienced a terrible tragedy when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, claiming the lives of 260 individuals onboard and 5 bystanders on the ground;Whereas Flight 587 took off at 9:14 a.m. from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, with 260 passengers and crew on board;Whereas the disaster hit Rockaway especially hard, as the community was still reeling from the September 11 attacks, in which 65 area residents lost their lives;Whereas around 90 percent of the passengers on the flight were of Dominican descent;Whereas the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) 2004 report determined that the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by the first officer’s unnecessary and excessive rudder pedal inputs;Whereas contributing to the rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300–600 rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program;Whereas, since the 2004 NTSB report, American Airlines has modified its pilot training program;Whereas, on November 12, 2006, on the fifth anniversary of the accident, a memorial was constructed in Rockaway Park, in memory of the 265 victims of the crash;Whereas a ceremony commemorating the disaster is held annually at the memorial every November 12, featuring a reading of the names of those killed aboard the aircraft and on the ground, with a formal moment of silence observed at 9:16 a.m., the estimated time of the crash;Whereas the memorial wall, designed by Dominican artist Freddy Rodríguez and Situ Studio, has windows and a doorway looking toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean and angled toward the Dominican Republic; andWhereas November 12, 2025, marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of this tragedy: Now, therefore, be it
## SEC. 1 Honoring and remembering the victims of American Airlines Flight 587.

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