American Airlines Flight 587 - Aftermath

Aftermath

Since the NTSB's report, American Airlines has modified its pilot training program. Previous simulator training did not properly reflect "the actual large build-up in sideslip angle and sideloads that would accompany such rudder inputs in an actual airplane", according to the NTSB final report.

American Flight 587 no longer exists. The flight route designation for the flight between JFK and Santo Domingo is now Flight 1749 using a Boeing 767-300 or a Boeing 757-200. American Airlines retired all its Airbus A300-600 Aircraft from service eight years after the accident (and 21 years in service) in August 2009 with its last flight, flight 1908 from Miami to New York-JFK operating on August 24, 2009.