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The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing all 128 aboard the two aircraft and six people on the ground. The accident was the world's deadliest aviation disaster at the time, and remains the deadliest accident in the history of United Airlines.
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.
The whole fleet was grounded for three months this year following a deadly crash in Japan in November 2023 that killed eight service members. Ospreys, which are operated by the Navy, Air Force and ...
December 16 – The 1960 New York mid-air collision: United Airlines Flight 826, a Douglas DC-8, and TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Super Constellation, collided in mid-air over Staten Island in New York; all 128 aboard the two planes and six people on the ground are killed. This is the first crash in which a flight recorder was used to provide ...
Slane ordered a bailout and survived, but the other crew members – pilot 2nd Lt. Richard J. Martin, copilot 2nd Lt. Donald S. Petty and observer 1st Lt. Max Workman – perished. The plane crashed near Seagull lake about 45 miles north of Port Arthur now Thunder Bay. Slane was recovering 19 further south at Ray Lake the morning after the crash.
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
A man and woman who sold pro-Donald Trump merchandise out of a bus covered with pro-Trump flags and posters are homeless after the vehicle crashed into several street signs and utility poles in ...