Victims
| Nationality | Passengers | Crew | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 176 | 9 | 185 |
| Dominican Republic | 68 | 0 | 68 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| France | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Haiti | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 251 | 9 | 260 |
All 260 people aboard the plane (246 fare-paying passengers, 5 unticketed infants and the crew of 9) died, along with 5 people on the ground.
Relatives gathered at Las Americas International Airport. The airport created a private area for relatives wishing to receive news about Flight 587. Some relatives arrived at the airport to meet passengers, unaware that the flight had crashed.
One of the passengers killed on the flight was Hilda Yolanda Mayol, a 26-year-old American woman on her way to vacation in her native Dominican Republic. Two months earlier, on September 11, Mayol worked at a restaurant on the ground floor of the World Trade Center and escaped before the building collapsed.
Early on, some reports erroneously stated that Dominican native and then Yankees second baseman Alfonso Soriano had been aboard Flight 587. He booked the flight, but did not board it.
Read more about this topic: American Airlines Flight 587
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