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United Flight 826 proceeded beyond its clearance limit and the confines of the airspace allocated to the flight by Air Traffic Control. A contributing factor was the high speed of the United DC-8 as it approached the Preston intersection, coupled with the change of clearance which reduced the en-route distance along Victor 123 by approximately ...
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16 December 1960 United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8-11 (named Mainliner Will Rogers) collided over Staten Island, New York City with TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Constellation (named Star of Sicily). [1] The 1960 New York mid-air collision killed all 128 people on both aircraft and six on the ground. 19 January 1961
December 16, 1960 Flight 266, operated by Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Star of Sicily collided with United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8, over Staten Island, New York, killing all 128 on board both aircraft; another five (later six) on the ground also die. The DC-8 had been flying too fast and left the airspace assigned to it.
Soon, it became a female-dominated field, with women making up the majority of flight attendants. During the 1950s and 1960s and what many consider the “Golden Age” of air travel, flight ...
Flight 826 may refer to United Airlines Flight 826. Mid-air collision on 16 December 1960; Aeroflot Flight 826, crashed on 3 August 1969;
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December 16, 1960: L-1049 TWA 266: TWA Flight 266: 44 [d] Collided with United Airlines Flight 826 (a Douglas DC-8) over Staten Island, New York. It broke apart and crashed, with all 44 on board dying. Flight 826 remained airborne before crashing in Brooklyn, New York; all 84 people on board and six on the ground were killed. [83] January 22 ...