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Flight 4184 crashed on a cold, rainy Halloween night in 1994, in Roselawn, Indiana. Winds were blowing 30 miles per hour. American Eagle Flight 4184 from Indianapolis was circling 9,000 feet above northwest Indiana waiting to land at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Twice the pilots had warned air traffic controllers that freezing drizzle was coating the wings with ice. While the 30-year-old co-pilot was struggling with the ice build-up, the 29-year-old pilot was out of the cockpit, socializing with the flight attendants. “Gettin’ busy with the ladies back here ... so if I don’t make it up there within the next, say 15-20 minutes, you know why,” the voice recorder captured over the intercom.

Bad weather in Chicago caused delays, prompting air traffic control to hold Flight 4184 over an intersection at 10,000 ft. After holding for about 35 minutes, the pilots were cleared to descend down to 8,000 ft and enter another hold. While descending, the pilots heard a flap-over speed warning. The pilots responded by retracting flaps, which caused a momentary increase in angle of attack,followed by the disengagement of auto-pilot and an uncontrollable steep descending roll excursion. Less than two minutes after this event, the plane crashed into a field in Roselawn, Indiana.

The aircraft, N401AM, was an ATR 72-212 operated by Simmons Airlines on behalf of American Eagle, the banner carrier regional airline branding program of AMR Corporation's regional system, prior to the formation of the fully certificated carrier named American Eagle Airlines. The flight was en route from Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana to O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. Bad weather in Chicago caused delays, prompting air traffic control to hold Flight 4184 over the nearby LUCIT intersection at 10,000a ft (3,000i m)

Flight 4184 was the first loss of an ATR 72 aircraft, it was also the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving an ATR 72 anywhere in the world. Robert A. Clifford, a Chicago airplane accident attorney, represented 16 of the victims. As the trial was ready to begin, the defendants agreed to a record $110 million settlement and an apology in open court.[3]

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