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  • This is the last commercial flight of this aircraft.

  • After flying out of New Mexico for the rest of it, they may chop this up.

  • No making me cry on the camera.

  • But yes, I know that hopefully it makes it more.

  • They were saying 41,000 times.

  • It's been in the air.

  • It's pretty crazy.

  • How old are you?

  • You may be younger than your 23 planes.

  • They're retiring them to the desert.

  • It'll either be chopped up.

  • So Wow, I thought that they were talking about the pilot of the plane back.

  • Relax.

  • Enjoy your night sky over Chicago.

  • End of the final commercial flight for this jetliner.

  • Tomorrow I'll have the plane all to myself as the American jetliner is ferry to an aviation bone yard in New Mexico.

  • Best thing about this plane ride.

  • There were no other passengers and a great chance to finally Finn.

  • Hey, thanks for leading your seat back without warning.

  • Could you get that baby to stop crying?

  • Stop kicking by seed.

  • I wanted it to be a nice landing.

  • Wanted to be something everyone could remember.

  • I wanted to enjoy it.

  • You just shut down the motors and park the brakes, and it's affectionately we do call it the bone yard with me.

  • It's like a big aircraft enthusiast playground.

  • Strolling in the bone yard is a once in a lifetime experience.

  • Massive jet liners that roam the skies now awaiting a depressing fate, you could tell, just from different states of the aircraft, which wasn't been heavily harvested.

  • I've always wanted to stand under a 47 trey, but this one's not moving.

  • It will never move, not under its own power ever again.

  • How many planes that have been retired are on this field?

  • Um, on the books.

  • Right now we have 203 for American, and probably there's another 100 out here from the past.

  • They're no longer step up to the plane.

  • All right, let's check out the cockpit.

  • If I reach for this throttle, I'm not going to get a pull up.

  • Pull up warning cockpit tapes.

  • Not today.

  • You're not going?

  • I finally got out that window seat and we're looking for he didn't get put in the middle, probably within the next month.

  • This plane will be crunched up but the truck and hauled off to the smelter theme American Airlines jet I flew in on sits with other new arrivals.

  • It will likely be stripped to its bones for spare parts or worse Rusher thing could go through anything.

  • Today is actually my 1st 1 that I've actually got a You always remember your first crush.

  • It's kind of like being in a relationship.

This is the last commercial flight of this aircraft.

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