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Pre-crash photo of N6907C; Death in the Air, Time, 26 December 1960. Newsreel film footage of crash; Nelson, Libby. "The Boy Who Survived a 1960 Midair Crash" . The New York Times. 30 June 2009. "127 die as 2 airliners collide over the city; jet sets Brooklyn fire, killing 5 others; the second plane crashes on Staten Island" .
TWA Flight 266 (inbound to Idlewild Airport) and United Airlines Flight 826 (inbound to LaGuardia Airport) collided over Miller Field, Staten Island, New York City, on December 16, 1960. The TWA aircraft crashed at the site, while the United aircraft continued flying for 8 miles until it crashed in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn .
Miller Field closed as an airbase in 1969. [2] US Army 11th Special Forces Reserve was stationed at Miller Field from March 22, 1963, to August 1, 1970. The Field was the site of the Elm Tree Beacon Light, a lighthouse from 1856 through 1924 when it was abandoned (and later rebuilt). The light had replaced a prominent elm tree.
16 December 1960 near Miller Field, New York City, U.S. Douglas DC-8-11 and Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation: 6 0 6: 0 French Air Force Republic F-84F Thunderstreak accident [105] 29 August 1961 Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc, France Republic F-84F Thunderstreak: 6 4 10 † N/A Dominicana de Aviacion Flight 401 [106] 23 June 1969 Miami ...
The TWA plane, a Lockheed Super-Constellation with 39 passengers and five crew, had been on its way from Columbus, Ohio, to New York's La Guardia airport, and crashed on a vacant area at the Miller Field U.S. Army base on Staten Island. In addition to the 128 passengers and crew on both planes, eight more people on the streets of Brooklyn were ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
It was the second-deadliest plane crash in Texas history but today is largely forgotten A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON ...
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